> Very interesting - but perhaps you could define "jackdaw"? A jackdaw http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4505383 is a species of crow which is well-known for collecting small and often shiny objects to decorate its nest. By extension the word is sometimes used metaphorically for a person who likes to collect and hoard things. Anne

Anne, thank you. That's a new one on me. Is it similar to a magpie? Ken Harrison North Vancouver, Canada -----Original Message----- From: Anne Burgess [mailto:anne.listmail@btinternet.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 12:08 AM To: Ken Harrison; lanark@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Lanark] "Speak properly" Nivard? Is that a deliberate lightingof the blue touch-paper? > Very interesting - but perhaps you could define "jackdaw"? A jackdaw http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4505383 is a species of crow which is well-known for collecting small and often shiny objects to decorate its nest. By extension the word is sometimes used metaphorically for a person who likes to collect and hoard things. Anne

When I was at school we had to learn a poem called The Jackdaw of Rheims You can read it at http://www.bartleby.com/246/108.html Iain McKenzie On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Ken Harrison via <lanark@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Anne, thank you. > That's a new one on me. Is it similar to a magpie? > > Ken Harrison > North Vancouver, Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: Anne Burgess [mailto:anne.listmail@btinternet.com] > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 12:08 AM > To: Ken Harrison; lanark@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Lanark] "Speak properly" Nivard? Is that a deliberate > lightingof the blue touch-paper? > > > Very interesting - but perhaps you could define "jackdaw"? > > A jackdaw http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4505383 is a species > of crow which is well-known for collecting small and often shiny > objects to decorate its nest. By extension the word is sometimes > used metaphorically for a person who likes to collect and hoard > things. > > Anne > > > ------------------------------- > > WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier > message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. > > You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on > the following link to the list information page online: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

> Anne, thank you. > That's a new one on me. Is it similar to a magpie? They are both members of the crow family, and they are both famous for collecting objects. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1229780 Anne