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wwh wrote:
>>Maverick, who left when Keiva committed his dastardly deed (along with 40
others)<<
Being new here, I have no idea what this means or what the dynamics on this list are... I have a feeling I'm about to find out PDQ...
Thanks, wwh, for the URL (Quinion, on Welsh words)
Ch.S.
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>"I'm about to find out PDQ..."
ain't sayin' nuthin'
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Keiva: you were banned from AWADtalk for starting a flame war and refusing to quit.
You got re-instated by threatening to sue Wordsmith. You are contemptible.
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Dear Grump: here is another URL about Celtic languages: http://member.rivernet.com.au/manxman/Celts/languages.htmIf it doesn't work when you click on it, use edit,copy,,,,,edit,paste
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why are you surprized? Being new here, I have no idea what this means or what the dynamics on this list are... I have a feeling I'm about to find out PDQ...hardly anyone comes to a bulletin board with out reading a few posts.. and there have been many expressing our desire for keiva to leave, and why. and yesterday, the same comment was post 3 times in your kill two bird with one stone thread.. so why you are playing dumb ? i am a bit edgy.. every time there is a flare up, and there are flare ups because Keiva who was banned, and forced his way back by threats and extortion, is still posting here a whole bunch of 'new' posters appear... and start threads, and add to threads, and play dumb... and wonder what is going on.. and ask 'innocent questions' and up starts the flames again.. your question sets my teeth on edge. (of course i could be wrong, and time will tell...) keiva complained in time past that many of the long time posters were rude and drove away others... but he has single handed driven away 30+ old time people and almost as many new ones.. some of us die hards remain, and refuse to let his evil prevail.. every time he posts, we remind him, he is not wanted here. but don't believe me.. read for yourself what Anu Garg had to say. http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=72021&page=2
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Echidna (E-kid'-na). Half-woman, half-serpent. She was mother of the Chimæra, the many-headed dog Orthos, the hundred-headed dragon of the Hesperides, the Colchian dragon, the Sphinx, Cerberos, Scylla, the Gorgons, the Lernæan hydra, the vulture that gnawed away the liver of Prometheus, and the Nemean lion. (Hesiod.)
I wonder how this name came to be applied to the spiny anteater of Australia.
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Edhilingi The aristocratic class among the Anglo-Saxons; the second rank were termed the Frilingi; and the third the Lazzi, (Anglo-Saxon, ædele or edele, noble; free-ling, free-born. Ricardo says of the third class, they were the "unwilling to work, the dull" - quos hodie lazie dicimus.)
The etymology of 'lazy' which I never heard of before.
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Effrontery Out-facing, rude persistence, and overbearing impudence. (Latin, ef-frons, i.e. ex-frons, out-face.)
The behaviour of Keiva in continuing to post in AWADtalk, where he is not welcome.
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Eleven (Anglo-Saxon, ændlefene, aend = ain, lefene = lef, left). One left or one more after counting ten (the fingers of the two hands). Twelve is Twa lef (two left); all the other teens up to 20 represent 3, 4, 5, etc. + ten. It would seem that at one time persons did not count higher than twelve, but in a more advanced state they required higher numbers, and introduced the"teen" series, omitting eleven and twelve, which would be enteen and twateen.
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Echidna (E-kid'-na). Half-woman, half-serpent. ... I wonder how this name came to be applied to the spiny anteater of Australia.American Heritage Dictionary:echidna: [animal] having a spiny coat, slender snout, and an extensible sticky tongue used for catching insects. Also called spiny anteater. ETYMOLOGY: Latin, adder, viper, from Greek ekhidna, from ekhis.Picture at http://www.sandiegozoo.org/images/animals/echidna.jpgThe echidna is one of only two species in a very exclusive group of mammals called monotremes, the other being the platypus. Itself an interesting word.
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