[Sca-cooks] OT: Right Noble Guild

Sandra Kisner sjk3 at cornell.edu
Mon Feb 21 12:29:23 PST 2011


> Selene Colfox declared:
> <<< Forwarded to the Right Noble Brewers' Guild of Caid's e-list >>>
> 
> Probably way off topic for anything, but where did the phrase "Right Noble" come from? And what does it mean?
> 
> After all, I've not heard of a "Left innoble guild" or a "Wrong peasant" guild.
> 
> Stefan
> (troublemaker)

Well, the "right" part is an old use of the word as an intensifier; you 
hear it most often these days (if at all) in the phrase "right nice."

Sandra




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