Talk:Plucking (Glaciation)

Plucking
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 * What did you have in mind by creating this article? Is this a definition of the verb "to pluck" or is there an encyclopedic topic coming? It is a very puzzling article. What uh... branch of Dewey decimal system would plucking fit into? I am very tempted to propose it for deletion, but that would be wrong on the day of the article's creation. Thanks. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 22:24, 21 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I got there through the depilation article which linked plucking to a process in glaciation, which is a very specialised usage. The main article should be to the most common use of the term in English. There is a lot of material which could potentially link here, especially in the grooming and Roman era areas. Plucking is a major human activity and an encyclopedia should cover it. As for the Dewey system I suggest 390 – Customs, etiquette, and folklore. Lumos3 22:33, 21 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Do I have your permission to move these two comments to the article talk page? - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 03:12, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

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The word "plucking" appears in my 1966 edition of Chambers' 20th century Dictionary in the sense of failing an exam. The entry reads:

"pluck" - to fail, refuse a pass to, in an examination - from the custom of "plucking" (a piece of silk at the back of) "the proctor's gown", in protest.

I came across this because the expression "being plucked" occurs at least twice in this sense in William Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" (1847), which I am reading.

Iain Smith