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Thread #65801   Message #1086563
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
05-Jan-04 - 04:25 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Just what is a Cutty Wren?
Subject: RE: Origins: Just what is a Cutty Wren?
Go to the Oxford Dictionary and find that cutty-wren is, simply, the name of the bird- cutty-wren, cutty-quean. "A familiar local appellation of some animals." The name also has been applied to the black guillemot, and to the hare.