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Re: A village challenge and questions ...
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:06:13 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Fraser Lovatt writes:
> In lugnet.castle, James Powell writes:
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> > > A ferrier is someone who maintains or operates a ferry
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> > Neg, as the other James pointed out, a Ferrier is someone who shoes
> > horses...like my wife's old boss in Victoria.
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> No -- Mike is correct.
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> A farrier shoes horses, a ferrier operates a ferry.
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> Check out Websters -- or dictionary.com
Interesting... dictionary.com cites Websters (1996 ed) as it's source for
'ferrier', but m-w.com has no entry. There's also no source/etemolgy at
dictionary.com... Neat. I wonder what the hardcopy of Webster's says...
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| ~My~ Webster's didn't have either, and neither did M-W.com, which is why I asked what the words meant. James Brown had the best guesses, I think - they were the same as my guesses, misspelled words of similar meanings. I had guessed cobbler from (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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