Re: RE: stalk/stocks

The 1890 Unabridged Turn of the Century Harvard Dictionary is unconclusive as to the use of stock considering iris, daylilies, etc. Though it does mention herbes in general. No I did not mispell herbes that is how it is in the dictionary. There are also more than a half a dozen ways to spell it and 30 noun definitions of the word all of which we use today. It says that it uses are numerous and complicated and suggests that they are not all present in this dictionary. I wonder what the new Turn of the Century Harvard Unabridged  Dictionary wiould say. As we spread across this united states some linguistic forms were kept by some groups and lost or changed by others. The dictionary only slowed the  change of language nothing could completely stop it's evolution.
Wendy Zone 5
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: RYFigge@aol.com 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com ; wshear@hams-hsc.hsc.edu 
  Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 8:44 AM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] RE: stalk/stocks


  Bill,  I agree with you, without looking in the dictionary -- just plain 
  logic, or intuition or something!   I bet the confusion started with the 
  accent in pronouncing the word in various parts of the country!  
  Perhaps the New England  STALKS  sounds like STOCKS  or some such variation.. 
  Did you get Vince Lewonski's interesting  malipropism( am I using this word 
  properly or doing one myself !!!) email?  It was very clever.  You would 
  probably enjoy it - will forward it if I can find it again!  Rosalie nr 
  Baltimore,USA  zone 7  ryfigge@aol.com

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