I looked up the online OED (available via your ACT library membership). It has
an entry on 'bird' as a verb meaning to hunt birds, with a few uses from the
1570s onwards... But it doesn't have the new meaning of 'to go birdwatching',
as, as side note helpfully points out, the entry hasn't been updated since
1887 (ie since original publication).
Lol
John Leonard
> On 7 Jun 2017, at 9:52 AM, Con Boekel <> wrote:
>
> It is likely that Shakespeare intended a double entendre. He was that sort of
> chap and the Merry Wives of Windsor was that sort of play.
>
> As we all know, it is possible that there may be more to going a birding than
> meets the eye.
>
> regards
>
> Con
>
>
>> On 6/6/2017 10:23 AM, John Leonard wrote:
>> I assume that in the merry wives the reference is to falconry
>>
>> John Leonard
>>
>>> On 6 Jun 2017, at 9:12 am, Terry Bell <> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is first off the mark Anne Carrick, with correct answer William Shakespeare
>>> and the play Merry Wives of Windsor.
>>>
>>> There were several other right answers but it was interesting to learn that
>>> the words birding and bird watching, presumingly, were in use in England
>>> from very early years.
>>>
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