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JENNY LEWIS
Mar 1, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/1/96
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Out of mild curiosity and in an idle moment I browsed through the
Oxford English dictionary, just to see what bright ideas they could
come up with. Just as I thought - it's all the same thing really!
My feeling is that as long as I am up to my elbows in clay anyone can
call it anything they like.
Out of mild curiosity and in an idle moment I browsed through the
Oxford English dictionary, just to see what bright ideas they could
come up with. Just as I thought - it's all the same thing really!
My feeling is that as long as I am up to my elbows in clay anyone can
call it anything they like.
CERAMIC: (1) Of or pertaining to pottery, esp. as an art. (2)(a) The
ceramic art, the art of making pottery. (2)(b) Products of the
ceramic art; pottery.
CERAMIST: One skilled in making pottery; a ceramic artist.
POTTER: A maker of pots, or of earthenware vessels.
POTTERY: (1) A potter's workshop or factory; a pot-factory. (2)
The potter's art, ceramics; the manufacture of earthenware vessels.
(3) The products of the potter's art collectively; pottery-ware,
earthenware.
End of idle moment, back to doing some boring work.
Jenny Lewis
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