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Re: Pale Fire's "Backdracht": Rowans in Autumn
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A correction for my spelling "verglass". The word should be "verglas" and, following the Oxford Concise English dictionary, it comes from the French "verre" ( glass) and "glas" ( formerly glace, i.e, ice).
If "muscovy glass" suggests "mica" instead of "verglas" would we miss the autumnal suggestion of the sentence with its verglas?
Perhaps Victor Fet could aid me here: why ( at least using on-line information) does the North European rowan flower in May and carry fruit till August while in Zembla it is coral red in Autumn?
Would this place Zembla somewhere closer to China than to Russia?
Jansy
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If "muscovy glass" suggests "mica" instead of "verglas" would we miss the autumnal suggestion of the sentence with its verglas?
Perhaps Victor Fet could aid me here: why ( at least using on-line information) does the North European rowan flower in May and carry fruit till August while in Zembla it is coral red in Autumn?
Would this place Zembla somewhere closer to China than to Russia?
Jansy
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