Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: 10 Mar 2026 17:53:10 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <10oeeru$kih0$1@dont-email.me> <10oeiea$lo5g$2@dont-email.me> <6our7mxi9i.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10oh35t$1g6or$1@dont-email.me> <10oj5ii$259sl$2@dont-email.me> <10ojna8$2ashr$3@dont-email.me> <1772999514-12588@newsgrouper.org> <0nlrqkhnvbaefd3t4en5qclp0g9696ss0b@4ax.com> <10okn6p$2nl86$4@dont-email.me> <87jyvlsf25.fsf@parhasard.net> <10olp2o$3205d$2@dont-email.me> <10ooa5r$3hh$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net iCVfgvVc1NT/9O/T3HGRjg8bXPwqVV7EoNLJU1yDns0ghigYuk Cancel-Lock: sha1:F0ZPKQs0flfSqbm/DDRlrJcfvFw= sha256:m8sy+VmJk4nvOUl82w3ulWDEXKQmu98wVV6LUiglCJE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82829 alt.usage.english:1139199 On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:28:23 +1100, Peter Moylan wrote: > On 10/03/26 10:07, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2026-03-09, rbowman wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 09 Mar 26 09:45:02 UTC, Charles Hope wrote: >>> >>>> On 09/03/2026 08:08, rbowman wrote: >>>> >>>>> Twa corbies? >>>> >>>> sat upon a wa? >>> >>> I didn't realize the poem was anonymous; I thought it was Burns. That >>> leads to the question of where did I run into it. Steeleye Span? The >>> 'hawk and hound' part also raises a tickle. Some obscurity in Thoreau? >> >> Peter, Paul and Mary, on their live album "In Concert", do a song >> called "The Three Ravens". It could be a predecessor of "The Twa >> Corbies". >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Ravens > > God grant every gentleman Fine hawks fine hounds And such a leman > > I think that song is the only place I've ever encountered the word > "leman". I've seen it enough to know the meaning.