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Some randomness from Talia:



Interesting words from the Psion dictionary:
Lollapalooza.
Logorrhoea - presumably verbal diorrhoea.
Loyola, Luanda, Lymphoma.Lamella, Lamina, Latifundia.
Leukaemia.
Lhasa.
Liana - a jungle creeper, living in the canopy between the trees, never touching ground - or only vaguly associated with it.
Lufthansa - a beautiful name for an airline.
Lusaka, Lemma, Loa.
Mangel-wurzel.
Marmoreal, Maturational, Kinshasa.
Kasha, Neurasthenia, Oxymora.
Pachysandra, Pamplona, Panatela.
Papilla, Parenchyma, Paronomasia.
Pyorrhoea, Purina, Proscenia.
Propylaea, Prolegomena, Pretoria.
Praia, Ponderosam, Phylloxera.
Philodendra, Petrofina, Quokka.
Retsina, Sacraria, Salamanca, Samna, Sapodilla, Susquehanna...
Tuatara. Tularaemia. Trichina. Tirana. Tegucigalpa. Uraemia.
Yenta.
Zeugma.
And all these end in 'a'. (or l, or i, but just a few.)
Falafel... Folderol...
dashiki, kabuki, kaki, saluki, sukiyaki, teriyaki.
caravanserai. I'm sure I've seen this one before...
Anyway, that's quite enough.

((Anyone telling me what some of these mean would be welcomed :-) ))

Comments

Re: part duex

[naath.livejournal.com]

caravanseri - a place where a caravan would stop. In this sense a caravan is a group of merchants traveling on horse/camel back. It is a large inn type place, Arabian in origin

Mangle Wurzels are presumably a type of crop. They were mentioned in Animal Farm (the musical), I seem to remember.-- we did it at school, I wsa moving scenary.