Words beginning graduate students don't know

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Oct 11 15:21:59 UTC 2013


Linguistic migration.  From sea to shining sea ... Hudson River,
Kentucky River, Pacific -- palisades all.  Go West, young shad,* be
fruitful and spawn.

Joel

* Although I think shad do not reside in the Pacific.

At 10/11/2013 10:31 AM, Baker, John wrote:
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>I think many of us are more familiar with the meaning "a line of
>steep cliffs especially along a river or ocean" than with the
>meaning "a fence of stakes especially for defense," although the
>latter is the older meaning.  In my case, I think first of the
>Kentucky River Palisades.  Apparently the Hudson Palisades were the original.
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>John Baker
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>Torbert is correct:
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade
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> > From: "Benjamin Torbert" <btorbert at GMAIL.COM>
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> > I thought palisades were a bunch of vertical bis-ass logs. Correct me
> > if
> > I'm wrong.
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> > Torbert
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> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:29 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com>
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> > > Postdoctorally, I resided at the Hoffleit house for a year or so in
> > > Pacific
> > > Palisades CA, so I think palisades must be cliffs. But I don't know
> > > the
> > > last word in the list. What's a <geoff>?
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