generalist October

[taize]

completed, but would like a couple of explanations -

38) Got the answer, but can find no online reference to 'misnamed by David Livingstone'?

Can an aber clarify what the above words in the clue are alluding to - what was the misnaming?


11a) Have the answer - understand the reference to Puseyite; not sure of the reference to Limehouse (is it simply that it took its name from the kilns which preceded shipping as the main industry?

[Rose Maybud]

11a Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limehouse

see paragraph 'Significant events in politics'

Best I came up with :)

Regards

[Rose Maybud]

38a My daughter got this one first and can't remember where she found it ,but I've just looked at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyasa

Seems to me Livingstone didn't misname it at the time he found it. He simply gave it a name, which was subsequently disputed...

[taize]

Thanks Rose Maybud -

11a) I cannot see how the two political events referred to in wikepedia turn the word Limehouse into a 'nonce word?
( Limehouse was already a word in existence, whereas a 'nonce word' which is defined as - Specially coined word;�a word that is coined for a single occasion.)

38a) I did look at wikepedia and many other sources provided by googling - but, I found no information on Livingstone's 'misnamed' ?

just wondering if any aber can be authoritive on this - what was the 'misnaming' by Livingstone?

[Rose Maybud]

11a I can only come up with the suggestion that it's not the word 'Limehouse' that's the nonce word: it's the meaning of the word at that time.


Similarly with Puseyite. To me a Puseyite is simply a follower of Dr Pusey (vague memories of the name in O-level history!).

Perhaps what the words have in common is the nonconformist/dissenting trend. This would have been a thorn in someone's flesh and that someone may well have wanted a derogatory term at that time.

I can think of several instances in the past year where the suffix -ite has been added to a politician's name. It won't mean a thing in 10 years time.

Even the word 'nonce' has changed its meaning ...

[slaney]

About Livingstone ..this is only a blog, but suggests a possible misunderstanding in the first paragraph

http://my.opera.com/filipinaballerina/blog/200 8/09/14/lake-nyasa-a-tale-in-two-parts

There is also a reference to the same misunderstanding in a JSTOR article which I can't open.

[taize]

thanks for that slaney ... seems to answer my query re the Livingstone 'misnamed'

[taize]

thanks Rose Maybud for the ideas.

not totally happy, but time to pass on