[lit-ideas] Re: Splat a Pike
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:22:22 +0100 (BST)
and spatchcock that chicken! (origin unknown)
here's the Boke of Keruynge
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24790/24790-h/keruyng.html
--- On Sat, 23/10/10, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Splat a Pike
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, 23 October, 2010, 14:10
> From today's World Wide Words, ed.
> M. Quinion:
>
> "Under the heading of "Terms of a Keruer" (in a 1508 book,
> The Boke of
> Keruying) appeared a long list of the terms for carving any
> type of flesh,
> fowl or fish.
> The attentive reader (who was intended to be the
> master of a big
> household, not a presumably illiterate servant) was
> instructed that one should
>
> break a deer,
> disfigure a peacock,
> dismember a heron,
> lift a swan,
> unjoint a bittern,
> unbrace a mallard,
> thigh a pigeon,
> splat a pike,
> scull a tench and
> culpon a trout.
>
> But never, never
> carve.
>
> All this reminds one a little of the long lists of
> collective
> terms for birds:
>
> murmuration of starlings,
> unkindness of ravens,
> tiding of magpies,
> exaltation of larks --
>
> which were first listed in
> The Book of St Albans of 1486.
>
> Speranza,
> The Swimming-Pool Library
> Bordighera
>
> ------- "We are bewitched by language --"
> Witters.
>
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