Reverend D
Vague Apparition
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Really enjoyed the mistletoe article. I hadn't realised til I read it last night that I knew absolutely nothing about it. I didn't even knew it grew on other trees.
Yes very good read, was trying to hang on a while before reading this issue, gave up and now almost finished it, no will power.Really enjoyed the mistletoe article. I hadn't realised til I read it last night that I knew absolutely nothing about it. I didn't even knew it grew on other trees.
YES! Me too. I came here to post just that.Gotta say, that cat on the wall just looked normal sized to me.
K-9 in the UK would almost always refer only to Dr Who's 1970s robot dog. 'Canines' would be a bit too 'scientific' for a news report.
I thought it was something like that; I was just surprised the Americanism wasn't recognized. It's interesting that you say "canines" would be a bit too "scientific". Perhaps so, but I always thought making "canine" into "K-9" was exceedingly juvenile.
The K-9 Corps undoubtedly helped popularize the term, though the usage was around long before the War Dog Program began.
A search of Google Books, for example, found an 1876 issue of Hallberger’s Illustrated Magazine that refers to “the various ways of rendering ‘Canine Castle,’ such as ‘K-nine Castle,’ and, better still, ‘K.9 Castle.’ ”
(Canine Castle was a kennel in London owned by Bill George, a celebrated 19th-century breeder of bulldogs.)