Re: [lace-chat] Re: 'moly'
In a message dated 18/12/2004 18:59:24 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No wonder it wasn't in your dictionaries! Mine says that moly is a mythical herb with a black root and milk-white flowers that Hermes gave to Odysseus. Just listened to a program on the internet from Radio 4 that I only caught the end bit of when I was driving a week ago. It was a history of Little Richard's songs and I was taken back by the fact that Good Golly Miss Molly was using slang which was in common usage in the UK in the 1640s - a molly or moly was a male prostitute and I was interested that the spelling for a moly from the 1640s was the same as the moly in these emails. Well, it's back to sleep for me and my flu! Regards Liz in London I'm back blogging my latest lace piece - have a look by clicking on the link or going to http://journals.aol.com/thelacebee/thelacebee To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: 'moly'
So is this of the same genus as the Holy Moly g Joy wrote: No wonder it wasn't in your dictionaries! Mine says that moly is a mythical herb with a black root and milk-white flowers that Hermes gave to Odysseus. It also says that a European wild garlic that is cultivated for its yellow flowers has been named after it. ??? Man, English don't make no sense. At least they are both herbs. Though I don't think that a wild garlic would have sprigs to pick *or* lick. So the characters must have had a source of the mythical plant. Jane in Portchester UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: moly?
At 08:25 AM 12/17/04 +0100, Eva Von Der Bey wrote: none of my dictionaries knows about moly. I once read a fantasy story in which instructions for a magical spell began pick a sprig of moly, so I assume its an herb or plant of some kind. The story was sort of a feghoot -- the denouement was that the spell wouldn't work because there was a misprint in it -- one was supposed to *lick* a sprig of moly. Feghoot: there was once a series of filler-length stories called Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot, each of which ended in an atrocious pun. Like the one where Ferdinand was called to a chicken-raising planet that was asymmetrical -- the light-gravity side was noted for broilers, and the heavy-gravity side was noted for eggs. He solved their radio-communication problem by putting a hen in orbit -- thereby providing them with a heavy-side layer. (I gather that radio waves bounce off the Heaviside Layer in our atmosphere.) --- No wonder it wasn't in your dictionaries! Mine says that moly is a mythical herb with a black root and milk-white flowers that Hermes gave to Odysseus. It also says that a European wild garlic that is cultivated for its yellow flowers has been named after it. ??? Man, English don't make no sense. At least they are both herbs. Though I don't think that a wild garlic would have sprigs to pick *or* lick. So the characters must have had a source of the mythical plant. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where most of the snow melted. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: moly?
On Dec 17, 2004, at 2:25, Eva Von Der Bey wrote: Dear native speaking friends, passed a little funny test which asks for your beahviour while suffering from a cold and other simple silly questions and gives as a result, what kind of herbal tea you are.. while some others turned out to be chamomille, what I understand, I seem to be moly. none of my dictionaries knows about moly. I've never heard of moly (yeah, I know I'm not a native speaker, but so what g), was intrigued, and went digging. My handy Concise Oxford Dictionary defines moly as: fabulous herb with white flower and black root, endowed with magic properties; a yellow-flowered wild garlic (Allium moly) Since I can't imagine that your test would recommend an herb from fairy tales, I assumed it had to be the second meaning (yuck; I love garlic but, *garlic tea*???). Went to Google in search of Allium moly and hit pay-dirt on the first two tries :) This site http://sd1new.net/GardenPages/allium_flowering_onion.htm has the info on the plant and varieties, including its magical properties (just keep reading) This one, http://www.hort.net/gallery/view/lil/allmo/ has the photo of the yellow-flowered one - the moly itself --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
