Please explain, what "Of that Ilk"?

[flogged]

Forgive my ignorance, have often seen it written but no one has explain what it means "Of that Ilk" does it mean of the same town/village/parish?

[Gadget]

Hi

Ilk means same but in the usual use of the word in 'of that ilk' it means of the same family

Gadget

[silvery]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_that_ilk

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Of+that+ilk

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/english/data/d0082233.htm

[flogged]

Thankyou Gadget, after 2 yrs, finally an answer.
one more if you might know,

In old english writting we see the letter "f" used in place of the "s" with internal lettering of a word, do you know the reason behind that?

flogged.

[silvery]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s


'google'  is a wonderful tool   

[daval57]

Agree but disagree Gadget.

Of that ilk is much more general (now).

It is / was used to refer to anything / anyone that was similar.

For example, folk that 'come from' Scotland will be referred to as "of that ilk"
Travellers will be described as "of that ilk"
etc

Not necessarily from the one family, although, I agree with your trad explanation.

Dave

[Gadget]

Hi Dave 

Don't see that it is a disagreement!

I said  that Ilk meant same but that in the phrase 'of that ilk' it  tends to usually  mean 'of the same family'


Gadget

[flogged]

Yes google is a wonderful tool, but then one does not get to meet helpful people then, does one!

[flogged]

Dave, Gadget, shall we agree that it means;
we are talking of that there and this here is the same as that,   yes.