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From: Year of Wonder, by Geraldine Brooks
Sam's world was a dark, damp maze of rakes and scrins thirty feet under ground.
(Sam's occupation was a miner)
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I can't help thinking that maybe Year of Wonder is just too hard a book to try reading!  i found this with the help of Our Friend Google: Generally the mineralisation history of these deposits is complex, with successive phases breaking up and re-cementing the existing minerals to produce a brecciated ore body. Locally the fissure fill deposits are known as Rakes and Scrins, with Rakes occurring in large fissures, and Scrins filling smaller cavities and limestone joints.
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actually, the meaning of most of the words are understandable, it is just the words themselves that are new..
that is why i am including a sentance from the book, and not just the word..what is interesting about the book, is that there are so many words that are new to me!
i have looked up these words, i know there meaning specifically now, not just generally, i am just sharing them. with the emerald isle WAP (WordAPalozza) going on, i thought posting might be 'slow' and thought it would be fun to add some of the words i came across just this past week!
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And thank you very much for the interest you have provided! I've made some fascinating excursions.
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of troy - sorry if it came across like I was trying to tell you the meaning - I had no idea what the word was so looked it up, and thought I'd post that in for others' edification! And to me, it really goes sound like too hard a book to read  I get a bit lazy sometimes.
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Dear of troy: The posts you have made about the words in the book you are reading are to me the very best type of post. I very much wish to see many more such posts. I wish many members would make posts like these.
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