Another meaning to that horn?

[Mark Kohut]

I never bothered to learn what a horn book was, despite its name on a
major children's book magazine.

>From WILL IN THE WORLD, I read this ( about grade school students in
Shakespeare's time): " The child no doubt began with a ' horn-book'
---a wooden tablet with the letters and the Paternoster printed on a
piece of parchment covered with a thin sheet of transparent horn
---and with the standard primary school text THE ABC WITH THE
CATECHISM.

Our beloved TRP is the kind who might love the horn/horn ambiguity, homology.



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