[obol] Re: Rare common birds and uncommon scoters
- From: Joel Geier <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Oregon Birders OnLine <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 06:14:50 -0800
Mike Patterson wrote:
> I don't think that word means what you think it means...
>
No, I didn't think what you think I was thinking, just having some fun
with the multiple meanings of the word "common."
Of course it also means "shared" or "ordinary," as in the case of the
ordinary folks knowns as commoners who shared the commons in
pre-industrial England, and were sometimes disparaged by the upper
classes for their common taste.
--
Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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