Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Malcolm Purvis Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.english.usage,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: The Amarna Letters, Hebrew -- wait, which brew? Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:49:00 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <116hu7n$32c3b$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <%X0jS.2$XsQ3.0@fx01.ams4> <116j56b$3eghm$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <116kcln$1s91$1@gal.iecc.com> <116rtvk$2aq9n$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <116tfcp$2slca$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <116tl7a$2u528$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <20260831093459.00005fa5@gmail.com> <1179dl1$2srgb$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <20260902082955.00001d79@gmail.com> <1179tra$33d2o$1@dont-email.me> <117a5vn$35q9q$8@dont-email.me> <1788410695-4353@newsgrouper.org> <117aunl$3d9f4$1@dont-email.me> <1788413379-4353@newsgrouper.org> <2_bmS.2124$yo3.1274@fx03.ams4> <20260903080204.00005b2a@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Injection-Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="53931"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18lr1lVJOO646S5dnl8RfA12cQjK5WtvIPYSJYWfJRLFw=="; posting-host="a3d1d02a4f914ad93ace185e69e38b80" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kug/UEBe9QtaRu2IzXi+lRRRwv0= sha1:/qbJJGAfms53nFWJqbI8/Cue990= sha256:KX31nZFF3GpYIBWQsgC+KFStCRHUfweGY7mGaavl5GQ= sha1:8t1oZrHm08Zb+ikEmpTTznPCvlE= sha256:PzgNXC41EpD2m1O9AQDvSM0YZd/4s57HKILWkgF0e8E= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:235521 alt.usage.english:1149962 >>>>> "JA" == John Ames writes: > "Ilk" isn't common day-to-day vocabulary, but it is something > you'd say if trying to put on a "literary affect." It's > definitely not just some-thing the chatbots dredge up. It's used in one of my favourite poems by Ogden Nash: 'The Cow' The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk Malcolm -- Malcolm Purvis