[MD] Precious ?

[Horse]

Perhaps a good example of the quote:

“Britain and America are two nations divided by a common language.”

Horse

On 20/01/2012 07:53, Ian Glendinning wrote:
> All of which is very interesting, because they don't represent the
> sense of precious I was asking about.
> These are about things being precious - having high value to the
> someone expressing the adjective.
> I was talking about the sense of someone "being precious ... about something".
>
> As I suspected.
> I'll need to come back to my original point.
> Ian
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:58 AM, MarshaV<valkyr at att.net>  wrote:
>> Greetings Mark,
>>
>> And points to the use of fictional characters often associated with children's fantasy.  :-)
>>
>>
>> Marsha
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 12:01 AM, 118<ununoctiums at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, and Gollum used it too!
>>>
>>> My precious,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On Jan 19, 2012, at 6:07 AM, David Thomas<combinedefforts at earthlink.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1/19/12 4:27 AM, "Ian Glendinning"<ian.glendinning at gmail.com>  ask:
>>>>
>>>>> Question - does the English use of the word "precious" translate into
>>>>> US / abroad ?
>>>>> As in one person describing another as being "precious" or "precious about X"
>>>>> ?
>>>> "Precious about X-thing" I don't recall reading or hearing here. The phrase
>>>> "He/she is so precious" is occasionally used, usually by doting mothers or
>>>> grandmothers to refer their young children meaning something like
>>>> "precociously endearing"
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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