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I have always assumed that the elephant Jumbo's name came from the Swahili greeting "Jambo", meaning "Hello".
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hi. anything's possible when it comes to word origins, but I can't picture greeting an elephant in the wild!
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But of course one can greet an elephant in the wild. You can greet anything in the wild. Simply a matter of good manners.
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Tree-huggers must greet the tree before hugging it. And this is
usually in the wild.
WELCOME EPISTROPHY68
Last edited by LukeJavan8; 05/20/11 05:40 PM.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Tree-hugger? That's a blimingly new word to me. As is blimingly which I just heard use by one of the jury members of the BBC 2 program "Great British Menu".
" Oh, come on Prue, this ìs a blimingly good piece of beef Wellington"
The word didn't turn up in Onelook, but has 32 results on Google.
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----please, draw me a sheep----
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I just assumed (still haven't learned!) the name was visual onomatopoeia. (Is there a word for that?) Simply a matter of good manners. 
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Tree-hugger is often (usually?) used in derogatory fashion, but it is often embraced(!) by those to whom it is applied.
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visual onomatopoeia
Synaesthesia? Onomatopoeia: "The formation of a word from a sound associated with the thing or action being named; the formation of words imitative of sounds." (OED Online) Visual words sound like? But, in the Greek original, there is nothing about sounds: just "making words"; a poet is a maker.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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It's still surprising to come across a word you don't have and we have it (and vice versa) We call it beeldend woord; or beeldoproeper.
'beeldend' means 'image evoking- image making'. Any possibility to catch image evoker / maker in one word?
(btw, that cute little bar on top of my message window is not working any more, so no Italics and colors and smileys possible.
anyone who knows what could be wrong with this?)
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