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Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 9,259 Send Message	Porkie_Pie	Report	9 Jun 2012 12:36
	Malcolm, love it, Free Beer, :-D Tomorrow :-( Roy
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 443 Send Message	Malcolm	Report	10 Jun 2012 10:18
	There's a book called "Lock Stock and Barrel" out of print but sometimes available on Amazon...full of origins of phrases such as the title i.e. the components of a flintlock gun..the "lock"...the handle "stock" and barrel....i.e. "in it's entirety". My favourite was the meaning of Threshold. In the middle ages houses were floored with chopped straw known as Thresh which was strewn a few inches deep and swept out periodically. To prevent it prematurely spilling out, a plank called a THRESH HOLD was placed at the doors. Ta Da..
	Researching: Robb, Purves, Rutherford, Bald - Scotland, Fife and Berwickshire.
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,711 Send Message	Janet	Report	10 Jun 2012 13:13
	If you don't understand something..........couldn't make ash, muck or coke of it-jl
	Researching: Mellors of Fulstone- Haighs of Fulstone- Haighs of Horbury -Fowlers of Sheffield -Ashton/Acomb of Keighley-Broadheads of Mearhouse-Nixons of Bradfield- Hopwood of Dewsbury and Elland-Procter/Proctors of Malham