Foragers?The state of our languageKeeping on a similar theme: In years gone by the word meant ''A person who cuts the leaves and twigs of trees to use as food for animals in winter''. Later it came to mean the animal itself looking for the same fodder. What modern word is being described ?
Not foragers Frenchie. This is a word for something which we use on a daily basis. It was first used with the modern meaning by George Eliot, and has been further adapted for something we use daily.
Nope sorry Yorkie. A word for something you recently used - but which in days gone by meant something rather different. Or maybe not quite so different - what does a forager have to do before actually choosing what he takes ?
Just to summarize. It is something which all of us on here recently used - otherwise we would not be on here. It used to mean ''a person who cuts the leaves and twigs of trees to use as food for animals in winter''. Prior to doing this an element of choice was involved which involved ..........? The first use of this word in anything like it's modern sense was by George Eliot in 'Romola'. Now used in computing - and, like so many computing words, has gone through another slight shift in meaning.
Browser is what I was looking for Yorkie. Another of those words which IT. took over. First used with it's modern meaning in George Eliot's Romola to describe people browsing in a museum. In old English it meant looking for fodder. Over to you.
I saw this one recently - the first Western was filmed in Blackburn 4 years before the film the Great Train Robbery.
Cheers Yorkie.
All yours Frenchie. ''Oben am jungen Rhein'' is the national anthem of Liechtenstein and ''Kongesangen'' is the royal anthem of Norway - both have the same tune as the UK national anthem.
