[Lexicog] Lacunae

[Peter Kirk]

On 26/04/2004 05:59, Chaz and Helga Mortensen wrote:

> No, just wood material and trees. (Wood meaning "forest" is either archaic
> or British; I don't use it.) ...


Regular British usage, although most commonly in the plural "the woods"
except with a proper name e.g. Birnam Wood (to quote Shakespeare to show
that this is the original common English usage).



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