Milks - update

[Benjamin Barrett]

On Dec 30, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> On Dec 30, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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>> On Dec 30, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
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>>> On Dec 30, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>>>> As almond, rice and soya milks are listed, peanut milk might be a good candidate as well.
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>>>> George Washington Carver is known for making "Jersey" quality peanut milk (http://ow.ly/8eshM), something I recall from a biography I read of him in elementary school. According to the Wikipedia article on him (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver), Carver was active in promoting it in 1919 even though a patent had been granted to someone else in 1917.
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>>> in the Wikipedia milk entry.
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>> The Wikipedia article on milk doesn't have anything on peanut milk or Carver than I can see; Carver isn't even mentioned in the peanut milk article... BB
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> from your own earlier posting:
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> Legume milks:
>        Lupin milk
>        Pea milk
>        Peanut milk
> ...
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> ok, no mention of G. W. Carver, but why should it?

My thinking was that since the meanings of these milks are transparent from definition 5 of the OED, they aren't probably worth defining individually, with the possible exception of peanut milk because of Carver's work.

BB

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