[Coco] furriners, more regional dialect

[Arthur Flexser]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:


> 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.

> 


Sure, and "gardyloo" is what you should yell when throwing orts out of the
window!  (Look THAT up in your funkin' Wagnalls!) (Unabridged.)

Art