Thanks Lyn



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Hi Sorry to contact you off-line but although I thought I was registered (& 
I get all the HISTARCH stuff in my mail-box), I got my posting bounced 
back. Don't know if this is of any use at all

Lyn McKerr
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Subject: Re: Scalloped
Date: 11 Jul 2007 19:19:52 +0000

Haven't got an Oxford dictionary handy, but in the north of Ireland 
'skelping' is a beating- usually with the flat of the hand or a stick. 
Apparently it is used elsewhere too:

(this definition below is from www.corkslang.com/skelp.html)

"Construct: Noun 
Definition: A blow. 
Use: He took a skelp out of him.
He struck him a blow. 

Derivation: 'Scelp' - a splinter, a thorn. (Quin). 'Scealp' - a splinter, a 
blow or slap. Note 'Not as ponderous as a clout'... 'I remember a 
stone-carver from Dublin who was always taking skelps off his knuckles'. 
(Murphy). 'Skelp' (Ireland, Scotland, North and Midland Counties) - to 
strike with the hand or with a flat surface. (Wright). "

Don't know if this helps or hinders
Lyn McKerr




On Jul 11 2007, G. Alcock wrote:

> If one of our academic affiliated listers or lurkers would please check 
> the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary for us, there might be a 
> contemporaneous (and now archaic) usage cited.
>   
>   Please?
>   
>   Gwyn Alcock
>   Riverside, CA
> 
> Ron May <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Maybe "scalloped" is an archaic word 
> for something we are missing?
>  
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
>