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    Which common English word has, in its history, meant short-lived, famous or gallant but now usually means something else entirely as well as being another name for the wild black cherry?

    Question #42697. Asked by gmackematix. (Dec 24 03 10:40 PM)


    gmackematix

    		At home it was Christmas Day when I asked this and it is still unanswered towards the end of the Christmas period.

    The festive answer was the word "merry".

    Jan 05 04, 1:42 AM
    Senior Moments

    		Short lived? So the follow up to one of Shakespeare's plays would be the Widowers of Windsor

    Jan 05 04, 2:03 AM

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