> Oddly, Partridge has 'berk' as coming from > "Berkshire Hunt" when we all > know it's Berkeley hunt. That's because, as per "James Hunt" and "Gareth Hunt", "Berkshire Hunt" is Cockney rhyming slamg for, predictively speaking, an aunt. Yet "berk" has now acquired a much softer meaning - "idiot", "callow fellow". Weren't dictionaries great when you could look up a word like "Fart" and the definition was "A small explosion between the legs"? Donal Remembering fondly Jumpers for goalposts ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html