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Aside from the linguistic challenges they pose, these ancient artificial, noncewords, with their sonorous, cantillating, rhyming, and rhythmical variations on phonetic themes, have intrigued and fascinated scholars who try to divine the rules governing their formation.
In addition, autoimmunity has intrigued basic immunologists since the early realization that the ability to discriminate self from non-self was at the core of the immune system's ability to protect an organism from pathogens while avoiding self-destruction.
About a dozen years ago, when looking through a mail-order catalogue of sports clothes, I noticed a section offering fishing flies and became intrigued with their names—names like Cree Sedge and Greenwell's Glory . In a desultory way (I admit), I tried to discover more about the names, with an eye toward compiling a work on the subject.
Most readers of VERBATIM would, I am sure, have been as intrigued as I was to discover that a yeoman is “an English landowner often having municipal functions”; that in tennis a ball is net “when it touches the top of the summit [ sic ] of the net separating the two sides”; that a starting block has “compartments in which race-horses are put before the off so they can all leave simultaneously”; and that brick is the English for “a sailing-ship with two masts” --taking part, maybe, in a lofing match: “in a sailing-boat regatta, the action of one of the participants consisting in an attempt to bring one of his rivals head to the wind.”
I was intrigued by William Dougherty's comment [XXI,2] on Martyn Ecott's article The Franglais Blues [XX,3].
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