En réponse à James Landau <Neurotico@...>:
>
> The header being from none but:
> From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
>
> So that post was really yours!
>
Hey, I'm not yet senile! ;)))))
[snip wonderful idea]
Well, I'd love to do it if I was not that busy already ;)))) . Great idea!
>
> I'm learning!
>
Everyone is! :)))
>
> _Dr. Moggle's Alphabet Challenge_ was a book by John Magel published in
>
> 1985. It told as a poem a story about being taken through the alphabet
> in a
> dream state by an elf named Trapisset, being the chosen one on a quest
> to
> find all the words. On each left page was the story continued, told in
> rhyme,
> and on each right page were full-page pictures, containing objects and
> org
> anisms beginning with a letter of the alphabet, with the idea being to
>
> identify all 1,000 words illustrated throughout the book. The book was
> at the
> center of a big contest at the time, and amidst all its spiritual themes
>
> about "the quest", it announced that there were two words in the book
> that
> were both illustrated, and spelled out by name in the pictures. The big
> prize
> would be given to the entrant who wrote in and identified both words,
> and if
> more than one had figured it out, to the one who explained the most
> eloquently in an essay just what "the significance" of those two words
> were.
> For all the hype, I never did hear what became of the contest, or who
> their
> much-anticipated winner was.
>
Well, that looks just great! Typically something for Maggel! I just love the
synchronicity! :))
>
> Well, that's another good source to get your word from.
Hehe, I hope so :) .
I suppose
> "dendron"
> is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root too?
>
I wouldn't know. The form looks a bit too changed though to be the case (but I
could be wrong...).
Christophe.
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