on 22/06/2001 19:10, Dan Jones at feuchard@2CRFM.NET wrote:
> J Matthew Pearson wrote:
>
>> D Tse wrote:
>> No. As I mentioned in another email, "brillig" comes from "broil".
> Humpty
>> Dumpty explains quite clearly that "brillig" means four o'clock in the
>> afternoon--the time when you begin *broiling* things for dinner.
>
> That's odd. Especially as we don't use "broil" over here. I think broil
> means to fry or to roast, but I'm not sure. To most people here "broil"
> would sound like a mix of "boil" and "fry". Very few people know what
> "broil" actually means here in Britain. I'm one of those who don't. To me
> "brillig" looks like the OE version of "brilliant", dispite the fact that
> "brilliant" is from an Italian word.
>
> Dan
>
Just what is broiling anyway? I've only ever heard it in reference to
Burger King's "flame broiled whopper" hamburger...
andy.
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