I looked it up in the dictionary...
Odd = Not even, aligned, or accordant; uneven, unequal, discrepant, diverse,
different.
Eccentric = Deviating from usual methods, odd, whimsical.
Dabb = The nearest alphabetical match-point is displayed in the side-frame.
[Dabber = One who or that which dabs.]
;))
Merry Christmas!
Frank
PS I've had a champagne breakfast and I'm about to go to lunch :)
-----Original message-----
From: "John Cummings"
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:05:03 +1100
To: "Geoffrey Dabb"
Subject: gang-gangs
> What is the OED?
>
> John Cummings
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Dabb
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2005 5:16 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] gang-gangs
>
> (1) The lapses in the JD Macdonald book are inexplicable. Gould
> (Handbook)
> attributed 'Gang-gang Cockatoo' to .Colonists of New South Wales' and
> not to
> Latham, and Gould himself said Latham used 'Red-crowned Parrot'.
>
> (2) In my view persons genuinely interested in name-origins should take
> a
> look at the OED first, perhaps rather than having COG look it up for
> them,
> to settle their dinner-table wager. The OED's retrieval of first or
> early
> published uses is particularly useful, I think, for names believed to
> have
> their origin in an unwritten aboriginal language. It is the early
> written
> use that generally freezes the sound (whatever it might have been, and
> perhaps arbitrarily) in the form used today. Those interested in this
> might
> look at how other European languages have captured presumed indigenous
> sounds quite differently from the way English has done.
>
> (3) Tom: what about 'tom-tom'? (Other examples available).
>
>
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