--- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia(a)math.ucr.edu> wrote:
LittleDan wrote:
I (and equally my parents) was unaware that
'ilk'
carried any negative connotations. I thought ilk
just
meant 'other people like you and possibly
group
with
you for whatever discussed similarity.
The meaning is probably in flux.
Remember that some dictionaries don't carry this
meaning at all,
and none of the ones that I saw marked it as
negative.
(Although apparently Anth�re's translation
dictionary did.)
Harraps New Shorter is usually the best reference for
english-french translation dictionary
We should probably save these discussion for future
work at Wiktionary.
Definitly. The word should be included. I would do it
myself right now if Wiktionary was not in Unicode :-(
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