westwalker

westwalker commented on the user 1418330794

Thanks, I appreciate the info, which is not that clear on the site.

Mar 30, 2011

westwalker commented on the word tiffins

Tiffins: formerly, light mid-day meals. "On her table is the most appetizing of tiffins: and after it we have another talk through the office window." Dix, Edwin Asa, (1892). A midsummer drive through the Pyrenees. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. p. 178. More recently, containers for same.

Mar 29, 2011

westwalker commented on the word boscage

Alt. bocage, as in "On a sunny day, a traveller (sic) could walk for hours and emerge from the bocage as pale as a ghost." Robb, The Discovery of France, p.15.

Mar 29, 2011

westwalker commented on the word diligence

Citation: "Ahead of him lay an eight-hour journey on the overnight diligence to Chatearoux, forty miles to the west." Robb, The Discovery of France, p. 8.

Mar 29, 2011

westwalker commented on the word phonolithic

Citation: "If the traveler had scaled the peak of phonolithic rock -- so called because of the xylophonic sound the stones make as they slide away under a climber's feet..." Robb, Discovery of France, p. 3.

Mar 29, 2011

westwalker commented on the user 1418330794

Thanks, I appreciate the info, which is not that clear on the site.

Mar 30, 2011

bilby commented on the user 1418330794

The double square brackets are for linking to the comments/citation page of a word. If you are already typing in a comment box, be it on a profile, comments page or a list page, you don't need to double bracket anything. Although users sometimes do, in order to make links to relevant words. Although users sometimes do, in order to make links to relevant words.

Mar 29, 2011