http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/women/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/women/comment-page-1/#comment-145483 marie-lucie Tarpent Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:51:14 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1711#comment-145483 Very interesting. Just one comment: the French word <i>drap</i> means two things: as a mass noun, <i>le drap</i> does mean a type of heavy, felted woolen cloth; but as a count noun, <i>un drap</i> is a bedsheet. Derivatives are <i>draper</i> 'to drape (a cloth)', <i>drapeau</i> 'flag' and <i>draperie(s)</i> 'large piece(s) of cloth arranged to fall in folds', eg heavy curtains, or the long, loose garments represented in Greek or Roman art. Nothing there to do with feminine attributes of any kind, even dresses or skirts. Very interesting. Just one comment: the French word drap means two things: as a mass noun, le drap does mean a type of heavy, felted woolen cloth; but as a count noun, un drap is a bedsheet. Derivatives are draper ‘to drape (a cloth)’, drapeau ‘flag’ and draperie(s) ‘large piece(s) of cloth arranged to fall in folds’, eg heavy curtains, or the long, loose garments represented in Greek or Roman art. Nothing there to do with feminine attributes of any kind, even dresses or skirts.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/women/comment-page-1/#comment-145326 John Cowan Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:46:20 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1711#comment-145326 "Trot" is also a known name, or nickname. I am most familiar with it in L. Frank Baum's 1915 _The Scarecrow of Oz_, the ninth Oz novel, where it is the nickname of the protagonist, a little girl (perhaps ten, though the internal evidence is conflicting). Under the demands of the plot, Trot certainly does a lot of trotting about. “Trot” is also a known name, or nickname. I am most familiar with it in L. Frank Baum’s 1915 _The Scarecrow of Oz_, the ninth Oz novel, where it is the nickname of the protagonist, a little girl (perhaps ten, though the internal evidence is conflicting). Under the demands of the plot, Trot certainly does a lot of trotting about.

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