Hi from Paris, I reply not to the technical side of the subject but to the YONKS reference.
We used to use the term often in Liverpool in the 60's (I left England at that time to come to live in Paris). Its classical use was "I haven't seen him for yonks" An unconvincing explanation can be found in : http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-yon1.htm Yonks defines some imprecise duration of time, but definitely very long (how long is long ?). We used to use backslang a lot in those days, and as donkeys live to be quite old, "Donkeys Years" becomes "Yonkeys Dears" in backslang. This for me is quite a satisfactory answer to the origin of the word ! Apart from technical discussions concerning Revolution, this forum is becoming very eclectic ....... ! -Francis _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
