Jonathan ,'Touched'
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Why not "chainmail"?
I've seen it in various sources as chainmail far longer than I've seen chainmaille. I haven't seen any historical justification for "maille", but that may just be something I missed, so I'm not sure if my annoyance with the spelling is justified or just Old Fuddy-Duddy Medieval Recreationist Snobbery (get off my battlefield, she grumbled, shaking her longbow)
I've never seen "-maille". I wasn't sure what it meant!
I've seen it both ways. The vendor I purchase rings from uses "maille" so that is what ends up coming out when I type it.
If it's fancy, it should be called chainmaille.
Am I weird? I won't be offended, I really want to know.
I've seen "chainmaille" a lot, but I was always too intimidated to ask, because I thought there was an obvious reason that I was missing.
If it helps the conversation, the pieces I'm working on aren't classic chainmail related. They are pretties.
There is what I was told a Japanese style of chain mail that is larger links joined at right angles with small lengths of fine chain. It's very pretty. Hubby taught me how to make it. I should see if the arthritis in my hands will let me take it up again. He loved making chain mail.
A friend who worked at an armor museum said you should never use the word chain before mail. I'm not sure how he said mail.
Jilli, ltc is watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for the first time today.
I must say, the chainmail discussion is much more courteous than the muffaletta debates.
I was reading a review for a cookbook the other day that said that there were too many recipes with cilantro, and I thought of us.