Fa – the Green Dragon

A Place for the Odd Musings of an Expat Bristolian


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Obscure words explained 91. – panacea

PANACEA

Universal cure

An answer for all problems

Not always the case


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Obscure words explained 92. – breviloquent

BREVILOQUENT

Concise or terse style

He was a man of few words

barking out orders


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Just joking 2.

A horse walks into a bar and orders a drink

The bar-tender asks, How Come the long face?


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Unusual USA place names 5. – Quamba

QUAMBA, Kanabec County Minnesota

formerly Mud Creek

changed to an Ojibway word

Quamba  means mud hole


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Unusual USA place names 4. – Koo Chi Ching

KOO CHI CHING, Koo Chi Ching County, Minnesota

Sounds Chinese some say

but these are Ojibway words

The place of inlets

Note: The inlets being on Rainy lake and the Rainy River


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Unusual place names in USA3. – Celeryville

CELERYVILLE,  Huron County, Ohio

Settled by Dutch folk

named for the celery farms

around the town site.


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Just joking1.

I went into bar the other day and asked the bar-tender for a double. He went in the back room behind the bar and came back with a guy who looked just like me.


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Obscure words explained 89. – force majeure

FORCE MAJEURE

Disruptive event

Happens unexpectedly

A  legalese term