From ragnarok@pobox.com Sat Jan 26 06:51:23 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 26 Jan 2002 14:51:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 27056 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2002 14:51:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Jan 2002 14:51:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2002 14:51:22 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.98] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A25849450148; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:51:04 -0500 To: Subject: 'ui' in English Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:51:23 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" Reply-To: X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=48763382 X-Yahoo-Profile: kreig_daniyl X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 13051 I have a Forgotten English desk calendar, which every day tells me a new word that used to be a part of the English Language, with a definition from a source in the time it was used. Today's word is 'gizzen', defined as 'to grin audibly' by an 1876 dictionary of Yorkshire speech. This word would imply that it was/is possible to gizzen, which would suggest that in Yorkshire, at least, there was once an equivalent of .ui!