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One of my favorite local college team names is the Hobart Statesmen. They used to have an annual football game with another nearby college, the name of which escapes me, but whose team name was the Ambassadors
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spelt the word I intended to spell
Dunno about any spelling of any words you've used lately, FF. I was just responding to TEd's pathetic attempt at a pun off of your abusions. I remain steadfast in my resolve that assafitidy and vittles are easy to pronounce.
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The sports teams of Multnomah Bible College, in Portland, Oregon, USA, are called the Ambassadors.
Multnomah is an American Indian word pronounced mult=NO=muh. Ambassadors is, presumably, pronounced in the usual manner.
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Ya know, if you hadn't pointed that out probably everyone woulda noticed!
For the record: you will observe that my pathetic attempts at punning are most often typed in a mixture of casess. Case you didn't notice and case you did.
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In reply to:
Multnomah is an American Indian word pronounced mult=NO=muh.
But what does it mean?
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In reply to: ------------------------------------------------------------ Multnomah is an American Indian word pronounced mult=NO=muh. ----------------------------------------------------------- "But what does it mean?" ~ Bingley asked. I am sure that Father Steve will tell us momentarily, Mister Bingley, but considering the neo-thinking of modern day Oregonians, a more proper question might be... "Yes, but what does it feel." 
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a mixture of cases
Or like, say, nominative, accusative, dative, instrumental, and like that?
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Multnomah is a proper noun referring to the Multnomah Indian tribe. Its origin may be a corruption of a coastal dialect meaning "down river" -- which Portland is.
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How can you be down river from a coast?
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If one had to guess, I would imagine a scenario that looked like this. Lewis and Clark (or some other Anglo explorers) asked a band of Indians up river from Portland (the mouth of the Columbia) who those Indians were downstream. The Indians they asked spoke some version of Chinook. In Chinook, the Indians answered "Those are the Indians downstream" which the white explorers took to be a proper noun rather than a locator. Isn't it fun to make up history?
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American College Dictionary, Random House This is the one that I earned for obtaining 10 new subscriptions when I was a paperboy. I wasn’t, still amn’t a real Poindexter, and despite my verbophilia, I got still got Ds in Spelling – go figa. (see next)
Rhode Island Dictionary, Mark Patinkin
Webster’s Approved Dictionary, student ed.1942 World Publishing
Geological dictionary
OED, the tiny print version in 2 vols.I do use this, but bright light, strong magnification, and freshly cleaned reading glasses, are necessary
1 Roget’s
Dictionary of Synonyms & Antonyms, Joseph Devlin, The World Syndicate Publishing Co.
ENCYCLOPEDIA of PRACTICAL RECEIPTS & PROCESSES.
CONTAINING 6400 RECEIPTS; EMBRACING THROUGH INFORMATION in PLAIN LANGUAGE APPLICABLE to ALMOST EVERY POSSIBLE INDUSTRIAL and DOMESTIC REQUIREMENT, Wm. B. Dick 2nd ed NY Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, 1875I love this one. My wife saved it from the dumpster’s maw after her dad died and the sibling and in-laws (outlaws) were rushing indiscriminately to…never mind. Here are a few randomly chosen examples of the 6400 receipts. Cure for hydrophobia / To prepare laughing gas / Wash to beautify the teeth / To kill grease spots before painting / To tan muskrat skin with fur on
Webster's New College 1956This is one that I use the most. It has 10 appendices including a vocabulary of rhymes, (which does not list “orange”).
1 Bartlett’s
2 Spanish
1 French
1 German
1 Swedish
A few pocket Webster’s stashed about.
Maybe some others, but it was SO nice out this weekend…
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"muskrat skin with fur on"...may need to know more about that....
What a find! Thanks, Ms Owl for being a bit more selective than some of our relatives seem to be!
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