Klarinet Archive - Posting 000754.txt from 2000/01

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] middle register - an OT extension
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:44:10 -0500

Then the OED is wrong --- duvets are, by and large, NOT quilted.
I first encountered one in Austria, where they are large enough and
thick enough to be useful -- the
current vogue for them in the U.K. involves bad imitations which
invariably fall off in the night; they're really for people who can afford
to keep their houses so warm, even at night, that they don't really need
bedclothes.
All very offtopical...
Roger Shilcock

On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, redcedar wrote:

> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 19:34:42 +1100
> From: redcedar <redcedar@-----.au>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] middle register - an OT extension
>
> Actually, Tim, the Macquarie Dictionary defines a "doona" as "a quilted
> eiderdown with a down filling", noting that the term is trademarked. A
> "duvet" is defined in the OED as "a thick soft quilt used instead of
> bed-clothes", and noted in the Macquarie as being "stuffed with down". I'd
> reckon they are close approximations.
>
> And, I think any self-respecting quilter would argue that the layers of a
> quilt are stitched together using a quilting stitch, more commonly known as
> a running stitch - not cross-stitched in the conventional use of that term
> which is usually applied to embroidery, Spanish blackwork, and such like.
>
> Michael
>
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> Subject: Re: [kl] middle register
>
>
> Note for pedants..
> A DOONA might be a douvet ( I can't define a douvet) but it's rarely an
> EIDERDOWN.
> EIDER DOWN = the fine soft down of the EIDER duck, or a bed QUILT stuffed
> with EIDER down.
> A QUILT (noun) is made by placing some soft, low density substanceetween
> two layers of material and cross-stiching it into place.
> Most DOONAS are stuffed with CHOOK feathers or some synthetic wadding and to
> further confuse the issue I don't think many are QUILTed too well these
> days.
> CHOOK @-----.
>
> Contrary to what Christina said, I don't that we (Australians) speak an
> adulterated version of English (best left to Ameicans, Canadians, New
> Zealanders, S. Africans etc..)
> Anyway, the implication seems to be that domesticated dogs are universally
> tuned to C1.
> I wonder whether their tuning note lowers as size increases.
> I should really be doing some real work...
> regards,
> Tim
>
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