Comments on: Words from my reading http://wordlily.com/2009/04/29/words-from-my-reading-2-2/ For the love of language (and some fiber arts, too) Tue, 29 May 2012 12:29:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Keith http://wordlily.com/2009/04/29/words-from-my-reading-2-2/#comment-3912 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:59:52 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-3912 There’s a delicious fruit known as che (Cudrania tricuspidata) (AKA: Chinese Che, Chinese Mulberry, Cudrang, Mandarin Melon Berry, Silkworm Thorn) that can be grafted onto Osage orange (Maclura pomifera). I recently blogged about it at http://kjpermaculture.blogspot.com/2009/09/che-eh-mmmm-nom-nom.html

I have observed osage orange fruit being eaten by deer and the seeds by squirrels. Long, long ago they were eaten by mastodons and giant sloth.

BTW, in addition to growing che on OO seedlings at home, I am also intentionally growing thornless honey locusts for cut-and-come-again (i.e. coppiced) mulch, bee forage, fodder and free nitrogen.
Keith Johnson
permacultureactivist.net

]]> By: Care http://wordlily.com/2009/04/29/words-from-my-reading-2-2/#comment-2908 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:08:50 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-2908 Hedge apples!

]]> By: jennysbooks http://wordlily.com/2009/04/29/words-from-my-reading-2-2/#comment-2906 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:53:31 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-2906 I don’t have any exciting new words from my reading – I love that use of cursive though! I had no idea. :)

]]> By: wordlily http://wordlily.com/2009/04/29/words-from-my-reading-2-2/#comment-2903 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:14:17 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-2903 I wondered the same thing, and your asking prompted me to look it up: Whitleather is leather dressed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness. So there you have it. I added this information to my definition above, also.

]]> By: Widen Your Social Circle: New Word Repository Entries « filling my patch of sky http://wordlily.com/2009/04/29/words-from-my-reading-2-2/#comment-2902 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:48:04 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-2902 [...] more word-related discoveries, visit wordlily. Posted in books, language. Tags: Into the Wild, new words, vocabulary. No Comments [...]

]]> By: bermudaonion http://wordlily.com/2009/04/29/words-from-my-reading-2-2/#comment-2901 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:34:54 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-2901 Interesting words. I wonder why they specified white leather – is it tougher than other leather?

]]> By: wordlily http://wordlily.com/2009/04/29/words-from-my-reading-2-2/#comment-2900 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:11:38 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-2900 Yes, it does sound like drumming, doesn’t it?

The dictionary (not online) didn’t say it was; I don’t always trust online dictionaries. This wouldn’t be the first time I’ve found the WordPress dictionary to be wrong.

]]> By: Margot http://wordlily.com/2009/04/29/words-from-my-reading-2-2/#comment-2898 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:59:21 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-2898 I like rataplan. Just saying it sounds like drumming. It must be obsolete, though, because the WordPress dictionary says it’s misspelled. Anyway, I’m going to use it the next time it rains.

]]> By: pcNielsen http://wordlily.com/2009/04/29/words-from-my-reading-2-2/#comment-2897 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:57:01 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-2897 Good for keeping mosquitos away IIRC; they’re all over along I-135 in Kansas, I’ve noticed.

]]> By: Michele http://wordlily.com/2009/04/29/words-from-my-reading-2-2/#comment-2896 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:33:44 +0000 http://wordlily.wordpress.com/?p=1782#comment-2896 At first I was thinking cursive – you mean like handwriting? Realized, yes and no. What a great use of that word…I never realized it was a modifier on the word handwriting. I’ll have to figure out how else to use it now. :-)

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