The word "lumberjack" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the term to refer to someone who cuts down trees for timber, and you can use it as an adjective to describe clothing or other items that are related to the profession. Example sentence: The little girl wore a red and black plaid lumberjack shirt to the Thanksgiving family gathering.
This only shows that cheese borders became brittle well before Lactalis, the French dairy company mentioned in your article, took over the industrialised production of mozzarella and feta.Daniele Prolong Chardonne, SwitzerlandShe's a lumberjack and we're OK* SIR - Monty Python's "Lumberjack Song" is even more "gender-liberated" than your correspondent realises ("Seal of approval", March 13th).
Now, for more prosaic reasons, the lumberjack lifestyle that created the myth of Paul Bunyan is slowly dying out.Blame, in part, the environmentalists, who have spent the past several years trying to save forests from the careless hand of man.
In it, representing two generations of tolerance, the woodcutter in fact wishes he'd been a girlie, just like his dear Papa!Tam Pollard EdinburghEditor's note: Several other readers have made similar comments but in fact the original lumberjack wanted to be like his dear Mama (see this clip from "Monty Python's Flying Circus").
He says that his lumberjack colleagues always got drunk at lunchtime and so he was constantly worried about being sawed in half.
"I T IS true that I am not a miner, but I am not a lumberjack either," says Tony Trahar, who took over on July 18th as chief executive of Anglo American.
And, as his night drew to a close, his thoughts returned to Halo.As for us, we fall in with a Finnish guy who used to work as a lumberjack in Sweden.
The "I am Canadian" ad by that same brewery, which featured a man in a lumberjack shirt ranting about American misconceptions of Canada, became a national hit, uniting as it did Canadians' love of beer and their latent anti-Americanism.
Ethanol subsidies for greedy farmers, bleak midwinter meetings in rural diners, humourless men in lumberjack shirts: all come in for their share of ribbing.
In other words, can they wake up to a mug of Cameron/Clegg-style Cameron/Clegg-style are they just a bunch ofiscalrs covering up lousy policies with flowery rhetoric?George Clausterityingtor, DC* SIR – On the cover of your recent North arerican edithey (November 20th) Barack Obama looks confident and up to the justdressed as a lumbunchck as he prepares tofsort out America's fiscal mess.
Alekseyev was the son of a lumberjack.
More popular in his day was Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta (1905; The Song of the Blood-Red Flower, 1920), a lyrical fantasy relating the amorous adventures of a young lumberjack.
