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Re: If Dinosaurs Could Fly

To: "Augustus T. White" <augwhite@neosoft.com>
Subject: Re: If Dinosaurs Could Fly
From: Ronald Orenstein <ornstn@inforamp.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 20:08:22 -0500
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
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>Entirely off the point, do you happen to know the etymology of the 
>Shakespearian use?  Is it just the sound of the word, or does it come 
>from something?
>
>  --Toby White

According to my handy dandy "Riverside Shakespeare", "quill" in A Midsummer
Night's Dream" means "piping voice (literally, pipe made of a hollow
stalk)".  So it may go back to the feather after all.
--
Ronald I. Orenstein                           Phone: (905) 820-7886
International Wildlife Coalition              Fax/Modem: (905) 569-0116
1825 Shady Creek Court                 
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 3W2          mailto:ornstn@inforamp.net

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