you're sort of right

Ilk was for a long time connected to names. If you said 'Lord Fraser, of that Ilk', you meant 'Lord Fraser of Fraser'. It slowly evolved to mean of the same name. So Norwich, Northwich, or even Ipswich and Harwich might be considered 'of the same ilk'. Especially in scotland where clans are traditionally very important.

In modern english, it can be used to mean 'of the same type', even if the categorization isn't nominal.

But originally 'ilk' comes from the same word as 'like', and meant 'same'. So Waggers might be able to justify his use of vocabulary even in a historical stylee.

(yes i had to look a bit of that up).

Posted By: Dave in France, Jul 3, 19:33:06