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Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2009marking rings
Marking rings are used in connection with fowls. In Denmark some firms have produced such rings in different shapes: letters, bycycles etc. in plastic which the children play with. The connect two or more rings (different shapes, different colours) and throw them towards a wall or something like that, but along the pavement. The aim is to hit the others' rings, and if they succeed, they win all the rings which have been thrown on the ground. We call them "hønseringe" (rings for fowls (hens)). I have asked some English friends here, but they don't seem to know them at all. Maybe one of you have heard of it and migth be able to tell me the English name for it (if there is any), or maybe you are just puzzled as my English friends are about the question. Do any of you know about it? >Marking rings are used in connection with fowls. In Denmark some firms >have produced such rings in different shapes: letters, bycycles etc. in [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >as my English friends are about the question. >Do any of you know about it? They are called "rings" or "leg rings". For example: http://www.ascott-dairy.co.uk/acatalog/Poultry_Leg_Rings.html#aPY148 http://www.chicken-house.co.uk/acatalog/Poultry_Leg_Rings.html?gclid=CN3ivMTClpo CFUU_3godaAEPNg Very few English people have any connection with poultry farming.  SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.english.usage) >>Marking rings are used in connection with fowls. In Denmark some firms >>have produced such rings in different shapes: letters, bycycles etc. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Very few English people have any connection with poultry farming. You misunderstand me - I am talking about marking rings (according to my dictionary) for CHILDREN to play with: http://img.geocaching.com/cache/ca22589f-0dbd-450b-ad1a-8e50807fae8f.jpg or http://img.geocaching.com/cache/1a6bd3a5-059a-4280-ac7a-b05c64b45617.jpg or http://images.google.dk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.gaveskuffen.dk/log/gaverne/Hoen seRingeStor.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gaveskuffen.dk/produkt.asp%3FID%3D65%26Skuf fe%3DPIGESKUFFEN%25205-8%2520%25C3%2585R%252012%2520GAVER%26ID2%3D11&usg=__TbI5z b-b-_-nFmALpvzEfZwIdcg=&h=329&w=430&sz=113&hl=da&start=1&um=1&tbnid=Q40BgEgo_xz0 OM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dh%25C3%25B8nseringe%26hl%3Dda%26rlz%3D1T 4SUNA_enDK233DK235%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1 >>> Marking rings are used in connection with fowls. In Denmark some firms >>> have produced such rings in different shapes: letters, bycycles etc. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > http://images.google.dk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.gaveskuffen.dk/log/gaverne/Hoen seRingeStor.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gaveskuffen.dk/produkt.asp%3FID%3D65%26Skuf fe%3DPIGESKUFFEN%25205-8%2520%25C3%2585R%252012%2520GAVER%26ID2%3D11&usg=__TbI5z b-b-_-nFmALpvzEfZwIdcg=&h=329&w=430&sz=113&hl=da&start=1&um=1&tbnid=Q40BgEgo_xz0 OM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dh%25C3%25B8nseringe%26hl%3Dda%26rlz%3D1T 4SUNA_enDK233DK235%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1 I don't know anything about this topic, but I am puzzled - why are the rings for children to play with called 'fowl' rings? They obviously can't be used to attach to the legs of chickens. Did maybe the game the children play start (a time ago) with normal round rings, and then manufacturers started making 'rings' specifically for the game, that could no longer be used on fowl, but are still called that? SignatureYou'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. >>>Marking rings are used in connection with fowls. In Denmark some >>>firms [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > or > http://img.geocaching.com/cache/1a6bd3a5-059a-4280-ac7a-b05c64b45617.jpg They are called, in your own words, " (rings for fowls (hens))". They originated for an industrial use, but have been converted into many-shaped play-toys by some enterprising manufacturers. The ones my sisters played with were 1 1/2-round spring-like spirals, like the key-rings, but they were flexible enough that the farmer could spread them to put them around the chicken legs. They were very cheap (they cost chicken-feed) and many of them were dropped and lost as the farmer fumble-fingered them from the tray to the fowl. >Very few English people have any connection with poultry farming. Is "English people" the usual expression? What about Englishmen? Doesn't include women and children? Brits? Etc? SignaturePosters should say where they live, and for which area they are asking questions. I have lived in Western Pa. 10 years Indianapolis 10 years Chicago 6 years Brooklyn, NY 12 years Baltimore 26 years > >Very few English people have any connection with poultry farming. > > Is "English people" the usual expression? > > What about Englishmen? Doesn't include women and children? Have you ever read a post on this newsgroup about "singular 'they'"? "Chairwoman"? "Womyn"? > Brits? More comprehensive than "English person." > Etc? MUCH more comprehensive than "English person." SignatureBob Lieblich Don't English people connect to poultry farming when they eat fowl or eggs? >>Very few English people have any connection with poultry farming. > >Is "English people" the usual expression? It is to me, a male English person. >What about Englishmen? Doesn't include women and children? No. I would use "English men and women" or, less likely, "Englishmen and Englishwomen". >Brits? Brits includes the Scots and Welsh, and sometimes some Northern Ireland people. >Etc? SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.english.usage) >>>Very few English people have any connection with poultry farming. >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >Brits includes the Scots and Welsh, and sometimes some Northern Ireland >people. Thank you. How about "the English"? >>Etc? SignaturePosters should say where they live, and for which area they are asking questions. I have lived in Western Pa. 10 years Indianapolis 10 years Chicago 6 years Brooklyn, NY 12 years Baltimore 26 years >>>>Very few English people have any connection with poultry farming. >>> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > How about "the English"? This subject seems to be a reproduction by budding. One might think that the subject line ought to be altered. >>>>Very few English people have any connection with poultry farming. >>> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >How about "the English"? Ues. There is no problem with that. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.english.usage) > Marking rings are used in connection with fowls. In Denmark some firms > have produced such rings in different shapes: letters, bycycles etc. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > just puzzled as my English friends are about the question. > Do any of you know about it? I think that I first saw some back in the 1950s, in my mid-teens, when my younger sisters, who were in elementary school, brought some home and played with them. When I was told they were for chickens, I can remember being puzzled, because, of course, I immediately pictured hens and roosters strutting around with the colorful rings in their noses, similar to the "nose rings" that were (are?) used in the noses of bulls and recalcitrant cows so they wouldn't use their heads to nose the ground or fences (or people) forcefully when feeling assertive. Those also made good places to attach a lead rope. Of course, I was corrected about the purpose of the rings for the chickens. (We lived in a small town in a diversified farming area.) |
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