Deep-Fried Air (Rebroadcast) - 26 December 2022
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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I've Seen the Lion and I'm Not Doing This Again
The term to see the elephant was often associated with having seen military combat right I mean that's right in some instances of that that expression. The word ort is a really old word it's been around since at least the 15th century and in Middle English it referred to the fodder that farm animals haven't yet eaten. It may come from a Dutch word we don't know meaning to to leave behind but ort is an old old word that means a fragment or a leftover as you said and it's been used metaphorically by lots of different writers over the years Virginia wolf famously wrote about scraps orts and fragments. D.H. Lawrence wrote about orts and slarts sl
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