This week's quiz, courtesy of an English dictionary!

[Jeffrey Kopp]

Well, about thirty years ago, after relying on Webster's throughout
my childhood, came the jarring experience of the American Heritage
Dictionary, with its contemporary "usage panel" and more modern
spellings.  I got used to it over about the next ten years, and the
dictionary got better as it went on.  My favorite dictionary now is
the Windows 3.1 electronic version of the AHD on CD, which can be had
on the discount shelves of computer stores for around $10 (pressed by
some outfit called The Learning Company).  (It runs just fine under
Win95 and I can share a trick with you to keep it from asking for the
CD each time you run it.  The sound files--yes, it optionally
talks--are on the CD.)  I just point and click on a word and the
AHD's full definition, etymology and thesaurus entries come right up.

Regards,

Jeff

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:50:29 -0700, you wrote:

>Lush-pulakli, kanawi-Laksta!
>
>We're lucky enough to have a big beautiful English-language dictionary
>where I work, and when business is slow, I love to look through it.  It's
>"Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language"
>(New York:  Gramercy, 1996.)
>
>Although it defines "chinook wind" as one that blows "down the eastern
>slopes of the Rocky Mountains" :-( this is a wonderful dictionary.  It
>even includes the following, and this week's quiz asks you to identify
>these 3 Chinook Jargon words by the etymologies Webster's supplies:
>
>1)  "...prob. < Clatsop ... u-tLalxwE'(n), said to mean 'brook trout'"
>	(tL is the "barred lambda" sound; E is schwa; ' is stress)
>
>2)  "...Nootka ma:Ho:ma(q) part of whale meat between blubber and flesh"
>	(: is vowel length; H is pharyngeal 'h')
>
>3)  "...< Lower Chehalis (Salishan language of the Washington coast)
>skwEkwE'm ghost, spirit, monster (hence, appar. 'fearsome' > 'powerful' in
>Chinook Jargon)"
>
>Laksta kEmtEks?
>Dave
>
>
>
> *VISIT the archives of the CHINOOK jargon and the SALISHAN & neighboring*
>		    <=== languages lists, on the Web! ===>
>	   http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/salishan.html
>	   http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/chinook.html