To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 03:52:29 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: return to our sheep
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:56:23 -0400 Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.net>
writes:
>> .... Let us return to our
> _moutons_.
>
...

> Without pulling out the by ragged dictionary I take it to mean
> "return to
> our sheep."  Which invokes a lovely and peaceful image of pastures
> rather
> than "let us tend to our own sheep", which might be what you meant.
>

The French word 'mouton', source of the English word 'mutton', can also
mean 'battering ram'.

Ron Kean

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