Words, words, words...

OK, my post of the first of this month possibly contained a semantic error. I used the expression "of that ilk" to mean "of that family name". I would argue that today this is an accepted usage, but would agree that originally - particularly in Scotland - it referred to a landed person whose surname was the same as the name of their estate - so "Guthrie of that ilk" meant someone with the surname of Guthrie who belonged to the family who owned the estate of Guthrie. Hope that clears that up.