[Sca-cooks] Fw: More gerbil madness

[Sue Clemenger]

I know that, thanks.  I guess I didn't make it clear that I was punning 
on both meanings of the "sound" of the word...what are those? when two 
words sound alike but mean different things?
My other female cat, at the time, was named after Sofonisba Anguissola 
(she's Sofi, and has a white splotch on her nose, like paint), and my 
male cat, eventually named Mack by my sister, came perilously close to 
be named Quince, since he's a marmalade cat.  Sofi's brother (deceased 
for a long time now) was named Tivi, after Titivilus, since he liked to 
watch me practice calligraphy.
Since Curye is my most food-oriented cat, AND she likes modern curry 
spices, and I have a well-developed predilection for puns and wierd 
historical names for my pets, she was named "Curye."
She also, bless her, has kind of a spicy personality! ;-)
--maire

Huette von Ahrens wrote:
> --- Sue Clemenger <mooncat at in-tch.com> wrote:

>>I have a cat named Curye...after Curye on
>>Inglisch (sp?).  That, and the 
>>fact that as a kitten, she liked yellow and
>>green curries. ;-)
>>--maire
> 
> 
> Except that Curye as in Curye on Inglisch means
> "cookery", so the title actually means English
> Cookery. Form of Cury means Form of Cookery. 
> Curye absolutely does _not_ mean curry, as in
> yellow and green curries from India.
> 
>>From the OED:
> 
> [a. OF. keuerie, queuerie, queurie (14th c.),
> cookery, kitchen, f. keu, queu, coeu:L. coquus,
> cocus cook: see -ERY.] 
> 
> a. Cookery. (Also the ‘concoction’ of substances
> in alchemy.)    b. Cooked food; a dish. 
>  
> 1387 TREVISA Higden (Rolls) I. 405 They conne ete
> and be mury Withoute grete kewery. [CAXTON cury,
> Higden coquorum artificia]. ?c1390 (title), Form
> of Cury. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1063 Here es cury
> un-clene, carle, be my trowthe. c1460 J. RUSSELL
> Bk. Nurture 506 Cookes with theire newe
> conceytes..Many new curies..they are contryvynge 
> & Fyndynge. 1513 DOUGLAS Æneis VIII. Prol. 95
> Throw cury of the quentassens