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That would be the "onshore" price?
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skift (American style)
n. (also skiff) dialect : something that is light: as a) a light fall of snow or rain b) wisp <skift of snow - Mencken>
n. var. of skiff, as in a small boat
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There once was a young man named Joe Who said, on the subject of snow, "I'll jump into this drift" But it was only a skift And he was buried right up to his toe
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Alex, that was cute! Ok: a skiff sort of skims across the water, does it not, or at least that's the impression I have. Therefore-- skiff-->skift = a skimming of snow, for ex.? That is, what I'm trying to ask is whether skiff may have been morphed into skift?
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Quote:
skift (American style)
n. (also skiff)
n. var. of skiff
-ron (morphed? I guess.) o.
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Er--sorry if I seemed to mantle you, tsuwm. Maybe I even did, but. I was really just wondering about the meaning. I have never heard skiff used in this way, let alone skift.
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Aw, jeez, dale. I had that word at the top of my list for the day I would get brave enough to be the Hogmistress...I ran across it in a book a couple of months ago and forgot to jot it down, so I had to reread the book to find it again. It wasn't in my brick and mortar Webster's. I heard about access to the OED free online while the BBC was running a show on it. I picked the wrong day to try and had to wait three days to try again. You owe me an obscure word now, guy
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