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fullygoldy) wrote2008-12-25 12:52 pm
fullygoldy) wrote2008-12-25 12:52 pm
For my Due South friends :)
Today's issue of a-word-a-day offered this:
1. A whitefish (Stenodus leucichthys) found in the arctic and subarctic. Also known as sheefish.
2. A stranger.
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garginconnu
PRONUNCIATION:
(in-kuh-NOO)
MEANING:
noun:1. A whitefish (Stenodus leucichthys) found in the arctic and subarctic. Also known as sheefish.
2. A stranger.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French, literally unknown. In 1789, explorer Alexander Mackenzie and his crew traveled the waterways of the Northwest territories in search of a Northwest passage. They came across an unknown fish and the French-Canadian voyageurs who were part of his crew called it inconnu.
mercy buckets!