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Usenet Posted 21 years ago
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Matchstalk / matchstick
I was just on the point of correcting the Radio Times for having referred to "Brian and Michael's 1978 hit 'MatchstalkMen and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs'", when I discovered that that's exactly what the song was titled. (it's about L.S.Lowry -
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricsb/brian.html )
Googling for "matchstalk" produces, almost exclusively, hits on the song title, suggesting that B & M made the word up.
However, I have some faint recollection that my father, an inveterate pipe smoker who put his burnt matchsticks back in the box, called such remnants "matchstalks".
(in Yorkshire UK)
Any feelings?
Jim
(still in Yorkshire, UK)
Jim
"a single species has come to dominate ...
reproducing at bacterial levels, almost as an
infectious plague envelops its host"
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricsb/brian.html )
Googling for "matchstalk" produces, almost exclusively, hits on the song title, suggesting that B & M made the word up.
However, I have some faint recollection that my father, an inveterate pipe smoker who put his burnt matchsticks back in the box, called such remnants "matchstalks".
(in Yorkshire UK)
Any feelings?
Jim
(still in Yorkshire, UK)
Jim
"a single species has come to dominate ...
reproducing at bacterial levels, almost as an
infectious plague envelops its host"
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[nq:1]I was just on the point of correcting the Radio Times for having referred to "Brian and Michael's 1978 hit ... burnt matchsticks back in the box, called such remnants "matchstalks". (in Yorkshire UK) Any feelings?
- [nq:1]I was just on the point of correcting the Radio Times for having referred to "Brian and Michael's 1978 hit ...
- burnt matchsticks back in the box, called such remnants "matchstalks".
- (in Yorkshire UK) Any feelings?
- ).
- It didn't leave much of anything.
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[nq:1]I was just on the point of correcting the Radio Times for having referred to "Brian and Michael's 1978 hit ... burnt matchsticks back in the box, called such remnants "matchstalks". (in Yorkshire UK) Any feelings? Jim (still in Yorkshire, UK)[/nq]
I tried screening out Web uses that were identifiably part of names (a play, a band, etc.). It didn't leave much of anything. Onelook.com also
I tried screening out Web uses that were identifiably part of names (a play, a band, etc.). It didn't leave much of anything. Onelook.com also
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[nq:2]I was just on the point of correcting the Radio ... (in Yorkshire UK) Any feelings? Jim (still in Yorkshire, UK)[/nq]
[nq:1]I tried screening out Web uses that were identifiably part of names (a play, a band, etc.). It didn't leave ... Nor does Cassell's. If it is either dialect for, or an eggcorn for, "matchstick," there's not much evidence of it.[/nq]
Did you try googling on "match
[nq:1]I tried screening out Web uses that were identifiably part of names (a play, a band, etc.). It didn't leave ... Nor does Cassell's. If it is either dialect for, or an eggcorn for, "matchstick," there's not much evidence of it.[/nq]
Did you try googling on "match
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[nq:2]I tried screening out Web uses that were identifiably part ... an eggcorn for, "matchstick," there's not much evidence of it.[/nq]
[nq:1]Did you try googling on "match stalk" as two words? It only yields about 40 hits, some of which refer ... than the LSD value to be considered significant at a 95% confidence that the difference is due to treatment effects."[/nq]
In that one, 'match'
[nq:1]Did you try googling on "match stalk" as two words? It only yields about 40 hits, some of which refer ... than the LSD value to be considered significant at a 95% confidence that the difference is due to treatment effects."[/nq]
In that one, 'match'
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