[Coco] furriners, more regional dialect

[Steve Ostrom]

KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:


>In a message dated 8/29/04 10:25:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 

>alxevans at concentric.net writes:

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>>>How about emus?  Do they survive only in crossword puzzles?  --Mike K.

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>> Considering the number that I personally have seen over the years, I 

>> seriously doubt that they have gone the way of the dodo and the 

>> passenger pigeon.

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>And then there is the Rhea, which I suspect is not only extinct, but appears 

>much more rarely in the crosswords.

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>Speaking of crossword rarities, who has ever heard of an "ort", meaning a 

>table scrap of food?  My unabridged dictionary says it's a Danish-derived dialect 

>word, so I'd expect northern Midwesterners to know it.  But I never, ever, 

>heard or saw it till the x-words.  --Mike K.

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I know the word well, but maybe because I'm a crossword and logic puzzle 
nut.

-- Steve --