[Ads-l] Youneverknow: "bleb"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Great minds think alike.

JL

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Paul A Johnston, Jr. <
paul.johnston at wmich.edu> wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Paul A Johnston, Jr." <paul.johnston at WMICH.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Youneverknow: "bleb"
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Wilson--it's in Survey of English Dialects too, meaning "blister" in the
> North of England.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 10:53:50 PM
> > Subject: Youneverknow: "bleb"
> >
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> > -----------------------
> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Youneverknow: "bleb"
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > "Now, the leeches, in sucking, do engender and leave behind little
> > _blebs_
> > or blisters full of blood."
> >
> > Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies
> > Brant=C3=B4me, Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de, 1540-1614
> > Translated by A[lfred].R[ichard]. Allinson in 2 vols.
> > Charles Carrington: Paris, 1901-1902
> >
> > Until ca. 45 minutes ago, I was under the impression that I
> > personally had
> > invented the word, "bleb," used in just this meaning of "small wound"
> >  and
> > that I was the only person in the history of the English language
> > ever to
> > use it.
> > --=20
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> > to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> >
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org