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guddle prob. imitative /GUD ul/
1) to grope for fish in their lurking places
2) chiefly Scot. : to feel one's way with or as if with the hands: grope
"Stripped to the waist and groping about or (as they say) guddling for these fish. "
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (1886)
"Tickling. A peculiar method of catching trout by tickling them lightly with the fingers oil the belly. After a little practice it is easy to grasp the fish behind the gills and lift it out of the water. The process is called guddling in Scotland, and the writer, when a boy, has caught hundreds in this way."
- The Shakespeare Cyclopædia, by John Phin (1902)
(Lie thou here, for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling! - Twelfth Night)
"This way of capturing trout is well known to country boys in many lands. An eminent American jurist tells me that he has frequently practiced it in this country when he was a boy. It is a most deadly method, and a stream may be so very easily depopulated in this way that tickling or guddling is prohibited by law in some places."
- To the Editor of the New Yorks Times, June 3, 1905
May 12, 2008
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fremd
fr. OE fremde /fremd/ now chiefly Scot.
1) foreign, unfamiliar, strange
2) not belonging to one's own family: unrelated
'Better kind fremd, than fremd kindred.'
- as from Walter Scott, Quentin Durward (1823)
"Better kind friend than friend kind. Friend is a
corruption of fremd, meaning a stranger."
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
May 12, 2008
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Intertwingularity a term coined by Ted Nelson to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge
"Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged -
people keep pretending they can make things hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled."
- Ted Nelson, Dream Machines (1987)
Nelson wrote in Computer Lib/Dream Machines :
EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY INTERTWINGLED. In an important sense there are no "subjects" at all; there is only all knowledge, since the cross-connections among the myriad topics of this world simply cannot be divided up neatly.
And he added the following comment in the revised edition :
Hierarchical and sequential structures, especially popular since Gutenberg, are usually forced and artificial. Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged—people keep pretending they can make things hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't.
"It is no doubt a reflection of the 'intertwingularity'
of knowledge that one has to be concerned with terms other than those one had planned for. Definitions and contextual examples of terms often make use of many other terms."
- B. E. Antia, Terminology and Language Planning (2000)
May 12, 2008
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cacoepy The mispronunciation of words.
May 12, 2008
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resipiscence Recognition of past mistakes and desire to do better in future. "It is derived from Latin resipiscere which means 'to recover one's senses,' and is a useful term for any member of the business community to remember." (From Foyle's Philavery: A Treasury of Unusual Words, by Christopher Foyle.)
May 12, 2008
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Mundle, also mundel. Wooden utensil used for stirring various mixtures; shim, slice.
—Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 338
May 12, 2008