[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