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Dodi Schultz
July 30th, 2005, 05:58 PM
Dave, you said,

>> Well -- Random House did <g>.

Did what? This list isn't threaded, and many (if not most) of us get these
messages by e-mail. You might quote a few words, so folks know what you're
talking about. Please?

And I forgot to say congratulations on the D0. Congratulations on the D0!

--Dodi

Dave Cunningham
July 30th, 2005, 07:21 PM
In article <Dave.Cunningham.1szj7c (AT) no-mx (DOT) www.tapcis.com/forums>, Dave
Cunningham wrote:
> The def several claimed it was as a DQ was "[Welsh] a valley" ... but
> the actual def is a lot weirder! I mean, who ever heard of one word
> having an equally strange one word definition?
>
Yes, that's a strange definition. In practice it's used much more widely
to mean valley, as I said; for example, in the well known hymn tune Cwm
Rhondda (Guide me ...). I have the advantage (or in this case
disadvantage) of having a Welsh "daughter-in-law-elect", so I'm picking
up bits of Welsh, but I already know quite a lot from investigating the
origin of various place names. I think cirque is a word used mainly by
geologists; I don't have a dictionary handy, but I doubt if most would
give such a restricted definition for cwm.

Tim B



To which my reply was that Random House did, indeed, use "cirque" as the definition.

Thanks!