[bksvol-discuss] Re: Is it a scanno or a real word

If any of you are at a University/college were you have access to the Oxford
English dictionary, you will find no better source of info on words, their
origins, and context, You don't know how thoroughly engrossed I get when
browsing through this resource.

Pratik
 


Pratik Patel
Interim Director
Office of Special Services
Queens College
Director
CUNY Assistive Technology Services
The City University of New York
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Thanks Sara,  I guessed that was what milange was, as he used it to mean a 
mix of city noise, commands, dust, traffic and his dog's harness in the 
city.  His first visit to Vivey.

I use the BN to edit the books so I am away from Kurzweil but shall use the 
google dictionary.

Thanks.

Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

      -- Vance Havner
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:34 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Is it a scanno or a real word


Check it out. Courtesy of the "define:" funtion of google.

Definitions of funicular on the Web:
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cable railway: a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable
and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

From Kurzweil dictionary:
noun.  A cable railway on a steep incline, especially such a railway with
simultaneously ascending and descending cars counterbalancing one another.

Definitions of melange on the Web:
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A body of rocks consisting of large blocks (mappable size) of different
rocks jumbled together with little continuity of contacts.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss2geol.html

From the Kurzweil dictionary:
milange. also  melange. noun.  A mixture: "[a] building crowned with a
milange of antennae and satellite dishes" (Howard Kaplan).

Sarah Van Oosterwijck
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