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Word of the Day for Monday, June 13, 2011cosher \KOSH-er\, verb: To treat with special fondness. Skinny Guts was rarely known to shell out his money for tucker when there were clan members at hand to cosher himself upon. "The poor Irish peasantry," writes Prendergast, "with a generosity characteristic of their race and country, never refused hospitality to the dispossessed owners, but maintained them as gentlemen; allowing them to cosher upon them, as the Irish called the giving their lord a certain number of days' board and lodging." Cosher is a phonetic spelling of the Irish coisir, "feast, entertainment." | |||||||||
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  After 90 years, scholars finish a 21-volume dictionary for an extinct language. Why?With over 7,000 known�languages spoken around the world today, it may seem fruitless for scholars to have spent the past 90 years creating a dictionary for a language that has been extinct for nearly 2,000 years. Hold on; Let's look at the reasons for the immense effort, and form our judgements afterwards. Originally modeled on the... | |||||||||
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