Just because I’m feeling snotty and superior today…
1) Thrushes are birds.
2) Threshes is the present tense of the verb thresh, according to dictionary.com. Threshes is not a noun.The history of the word threshold is (again according to dictionary.com) “before 900; Middle English threschold, Old English threscold, threscwald; cognate with Old Norse threskǫldr, dialectal Swedish träskvald; akin to thresh in old sense “trample, tread”; -old, -wald unexplained.”
3) What you’re actually thinking of is rushes – “any grasslike plant of the genus Juncus, having pithy or hollow stems, found in wet or marshy places” which were commonly used to cover the floors of medieval buildings.
In the words of C.S. Lewis, “what do they teach them in these schools?”
bagbalm about 10 years ago
What? No thrushes?
Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member about 10 years ago
bagbalmNo—they all flew away :-)
PICTO about 10 years ago
We always used manure in the living room. It kept the flies out of the kitchen.
pumaman about 10 years ago
Dirt with a scattering of straw please.
Jonni about 10 years ago
I bet he can really pack it in.
jeffbacon12357 about 10 years ago
Just because I’m feeling snotty and superior today…
1) Thrushes are birds.
2) Threshes is the present tense of the verb thresh, according to dictionary.com. Threshes is not a noun.The history of the word threshold is (again according to dictionary.com) “before 900; Middle English threschold, Old English threscold, threscwald; cognate with Old Norse threskǫldr, dialectal Swedish träskvald; akin to thresh in old sense “trample, tread”; -old, -wald unexplained.”
3) What you’re actually thinking of is rushes – “any grasslike plant of the genus Juncus, having pithy or hollow stems, found in wet or marshy places” which were commonly used to cover the floors of medieval buildings.
In the words of C.S. Lewis, “what do they teach them in these schools?”