[talk-au] Fwd: A.Word.A.Day--potlatch

Jim Croft jim.croft at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 09:30:39 GMT 2010


always wondered what a potlatch was...

jim

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* Wordsmith.org*The Magic of Words
 Mar 3, 2010
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Words borrowed from various languages

*This week's words*
goulash <http://wordsmith.org/words/goulash.html>
cabal <http://wordsmith.org/words/cabal.html>
potlatch <http://wordsmith.org/words/potlatch.html>

Potlatch
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 potlatch

PRONUNCIATION:
(POT-lach) <http://wordsmith.org/words/potlatch.mp3>

MEANING:
*noun:*
1. A party or get-together.
2. A ceremonial festival among American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
involving feasts, lavish gift giving, dances, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:
>From Chinook Jargon, from Nootka patshatl (to give, gift).

USAGE:
"'[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."
Shelley Fralic; World's Biggest Potlatch Changing Attitudes; Vancouver Sun
(Canada); Feb 24, 2010.

Explore "potlatch <http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=potlatch>" in the Visual
Thesaurus.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
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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