Not often, sowing and/or planting doesn’t come up often in my conversations, even though I live in Lancaster County, PA, where you would think it would come up often, but I don’t have a lot of farmer friends; though we did just have our front yard sown in grass seed, which is coming up very nicely, thank you.
I help teacher English as a second language through our church, and last spring one lesson featured sow and its many permutations and meanings: adult female pig, literal and figurative spreading of seeds (or male gametes) of plants or ideas or of the Word.
I still use sown, I haven’t noticed any more blank stares when I talk than usual.
Interesting, Dr. Kimber. How often you used "sown' in conversations?
Not often, sowing and/or planting doesn’t come up often in my conversations, even though I live in Lancaster County, PA, where you would think it would come up often, but I don’t have a lot of farmer friends; though we did just have our front yard sown in grass seed, which is coming up very nicely, thank you.
I help teacher English as a second language through our church, and last spring one lesson featured sow and its many permutations and meanings: adult female pig, literal and figurative spreading of seeds (or male gametes) of plants or ideas or of the Word.