On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:24:41 +0200, "Birgitte"
<birgitte@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>"Klaus Gerhardt" <k-gerhardt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i en meddelelse
>news:48062537$0$28220$9b622d9e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm looking for the meaning of Winterlude in general and in the Bob
Dylan
>> Song "Winterlude". All I found with Google was about the festival in
>> Ottawa during the winter.
>>
>> This ist the first verse:
>>
>> Winterlude, Winterlude, oh darlin',
>> Winterlude by the road tonight.
>> Tonight there will be no quarrelin',
>> Ev'rything is gonna be all right.
>> Oh, I see by thee angel beside me
>> That love has a reason to ****ne.
>> You're the one I adore, come over here and give me more,
>> Then Winterlude, this dude thinks you're fine.
>>
>> The complete text you will find here:
>> http://www.superlyrics.de/70264/songtext/a/a.html
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> Klaus
>
>
>Could the word "winterlude" be a lyric poet's playing with the words
>"winter" and "interlude"?
>
Yes. It is what is called a "****tmanteau word":
http://www.onelook.com/?w=****tmanteau+word&ls=a
noun: a new word formed by joining two others and
combining their meanings (Example: "'motel' is a
****tmanteau word made by combining 'motor' and hotel'")
More at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****tmanteau_word
The Winterlude disambiguation page on Wikipedia says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterlude_%28disambiguation%29
Winterlude can refer to:
* Winterlude, an annual winter festival held in Canada's
National Capital Region; [1979]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterlude
* Winterlude, a rock band from Denmark;
* Winterlude, a song by Bob Dylan on his album New Morning;
[1970]
* Winterlude is an instrumental Christmas album produced by
Josh Darnall; [1997]
* Winterlude, a book of poems by Vernon Scannell; [1982]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Scannell
and
* Winterlude (film), a 1996 film.
--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in uk.culture.language.english)
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