always wondered what a potlatch was...<div><br></div><div>jim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Wordsmith</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wsmith@wordsmith.org">wsmith@wordsmith.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:11 PM<br>Subject: A.Word.A.Day--potlatch<br>To: <a href="mailto:jim.croft@gmail.com">jim.croft@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" style="border:1px solid;border-color:#9F9F9F">
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Words borrowed from various languages
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potlatch
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(POT-lach)
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</p><div style="font-family:Verdana;color:#AAAAAA;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px">MEANING:</div>
<i>noun:</i><br>
1. A party or get-together.<br>
2. A ceremonial festival among American Indians of the Pacific Northwest involving feasts, lavish gift giving, dances, etc.
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<div style="font-family:Verdana;color:#AAAAAA;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px">ETYMOLOGY:</div>
From Chinook Jargon, from Nootka patshatl (to give, gift).
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<div style="font-family:Verdana;color:#AAAAAA;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px">USAGE:</div>
"'[The youth ambassadors] were coming to the biggest potlatch in the world,
sharing and developing a sense of pride in who they are,' Diane Strand says."<br>
Shelley Fralic; World's Biggest Potlatch Changing Attitudes; Vancouver Sun
(Canada); Feb 24, 2010.
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Explore "<a href="http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=potlatch" target="_blank">potlatch</a>" in the Visual Thesaurus.
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Twin Mystery. To many people artists seem / undisciplined and lawless. / Such laziness, with such great gifts, / seems little short of crime. / One mystery is how they make / the things they make so flawless; / another, what they're doing with / their energy and time. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
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