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Thread #97070   Message #2194156
Posted By: Nerd
15-Nov-07 - 02:30 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Carnal and the Crane (from Maddy Prior)
Subject: RE: Origin: Carnal and the Crane (from Maddy Prior
The OED lists Carnal as an obsolete word for crow, derived from French Corneille. Previous dictionaries have not listed it, but as Child himself says on the subject, "it is hazardous to build conclusions on the omissions of dictionaries."