Bees and Bells LO27808

From: Leo Minnigh (l.d.minnigh@library.tudelft.nl)
Date: 02/11/02


Replying to LO27782 --

Dear LO'ers,

The long post of dear Andrew still vibrates in my mind. Vibrating like
buzzing bees, a cloud of bees, a young population who decided to live on
its own, apart from the old mother.

What surpised me was Andrew's ending of his contribution:

"I like how 'yield' works two ways ..."

Andrew, you must know that At and I had a rather intense dialogue on the
ethymological roots of "geld" wich is the Dutch/South African word for
'money'. At and I entered in a very complex tree of related words, all in
some way indicating the strong relationship between money and
land/country.

And 'yield' is one such word; it is the Old English for money (you may
recognise still the word 'geld' in it). But remember, the word 'guilt' and
'guilty' and these Medieval 'Guilds' are very nearby. So:

"I like how 'yield' works many ways..."

dr. Leo D. Minnigh
l.d.minnigh@library.tudelft.nl
Library Technical University Delft
PO BOX 98, 2600 MG Delft, The Netherlands
Tel.: 31 15 2782226
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Leo Minnigh <l.d.minnigh@library.tudelft.nl>

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