I just got back home after a couple of days away and see more has been added to this subject. Wonderful! I think there is and are many meanings come out which make sense and I am grateful for the input.

"When I use a word it means what I want it to mean...nothing more and nothing less..."

Could be more than fair enough but so many of these songs have intriguing meanings and histories just because a word does mean something else.

Lewis Carroll (whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson )called it a looking glass instead of a mirror because hat was the language of the time I guess, just like some of the words mentioned in the thread were used in their day, and Wicki states... "In 1856 he published his first piece of work under the name that would make him famous. A romantic poem called "Solitude" appeared in The Train under the authorship of "Lewis Carroll". This pseudonym was a play on his real name; Lewis was the anglicised form of Ludovicus, which was the Latin for Lutwidge, and Carroll being an anglicised version of Carolus, the Latin for Charles". So obviously he played with names if not words ;-)


When I sing "Bunch of Thyme" tonight it will be with a far more knowledgeable head on my shoulders.

I have throroughly enjoyed the whole thread and hope it continues a while yet. Than you for all contributions

mp