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>Help!
> It has occurred to me that maybe one of you has a really good dictionary
>to recommend or what is the situation on a dictionary CD?. Here is my list
>of test words:
Since there are often Sinclair-specific uses of such terms, I have started
a Clan Sinclair glossary, using the definitions sent to the list recently.
See
http://www.mids.org/sinclair/
and look in New Items under G for glossary. All these words are now in it.
>bothy=I found this on our website, ie: Noss Head Light house has a
>self-catering bothy
>Desiderata=name of a creed found in Old St. Paul's Church, Baltimore dated
>maybe
> 1690. Have to check the date out but that doesn't matter. I have
>been looking for
> this word for over a year and ..there it was in the Madman book
>described above,
> but still couldn't tell what it meant.
Actually, the poem was written in 1927 by Max Ehrmann, who copyrighted it.
See the glossary.
>scryer=one dictionary had a definition but it was only about 5 words long.
>dapifer=as in Eudo Sinclair was a dapifer, from the Morrison book pg 24
Thanks,
John
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John Sinclair Quarterman <jsq@mids.org>
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