New word resources

[Paul Ivsin]

A fine place to start online is One Look Dictionaries
(http://www.onelook.com), which indexes over 700 other online dictionaries.
They have one hit for pupu and two for Menehune, but none for ogo (unless
you mean OGO = "Orbiting Geophysical Observatory," but from the context I'd
doubt it).

This should at least give you a sense of a word's relative popularity.

Paul

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Paul Ivsin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Barrett" <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 3:54 PM
Subject: New word resources


Taking a hint from Barry Popik, I carried a notebook while in Hawaii
this past week. I found a couple of common words that I thought
might be useful to note (ogo and pupu/pupus are at the top of the
list), but I would like to check and make sure they aren't already
in dictionaries.

Where should I check, and can the check be done on the Internet from
home?

I have found that I can access the OED by using my public library
card, but is that the most up-to-date source?

Also, are proper nouns of interest? I found a 1923 citation for
Menehunes, the plural form of Menehune. According to legend, they
are the people who preceded the Polynesians in settling the Hawaiian
islands.

Benjamin Barrett