Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!ljdickey From: ljdickey@watmath.UUCP (Lee Dickey) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: What's it called Message-ID: <5506@watmath.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Jul-83 11:51:29 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.5506 Posted: Tue Jul 12 11:51:29 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jul-83 00:19:10 EDT Sender: ljdickey@watmath.UUCP Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 24 I always thought those holey strips of paper were were called SELVAGE, because that what I called those little pieces of paper that I tore from around a page of stamps. (Remember when stamps were cheap enough that you could buy a whole sheet at one time?) I looked this word up in my Concise OED, and they list only the meaning "Edge of cloth so woven that it cannot unravel..." and something about "edge-plate of lock..." but they do not mention the edge of a sheet of stamps. I found the stamp connection in Websters third new international. Does this mean that the British do not use this word selvage for that stuff? Any stamp collectors know this word? Any (British) stamp collectors know? -- Lee Dickey University of Waterloo ljdickey@watmath.UUCP 1 - 519 - 884-1211