Re: bothy, Solved

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Thanks Ian,
    The search turned out to be fun....an end in itself and we all profited
with a Sinclair glossery, a dictionary website and now a really good idea of
what it is.  Now everyone should use this as their word for the day and see
how you can work it into the conversation. ha.
Laurel
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Sinclair <iansinclair@clansinclair.freeserve.co.uk>
To: sinclair@jump.net <sinclair@jump.net>
Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 2:50 PM
Subject: bothy, Solved


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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Spirit One Email <laurel@spiritone.com>
>To: sinclair@zilker.net <sinclair@zilker.net>
>Date: 27 February 1999 07:57
>Subject: Does anyone have a really good dictionary?
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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:
>>
>>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.
>>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
>>
>>Laurel
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>>Hi Laurel
>Ian Sinclair from Noss Head lighthouse replying.
>My bothy is a self contained living quarters for 2 people. It has twin
>bunks, toilet, shower, and tea/coffee making facilities plus small
microwave
>oven.
>Sorry about the confusion
>Very best wishes,
>Ian.
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