Re: Word usage in English dialects // was Slang, curses and vulgarities

--- Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
wrote:

> On 2 Feb 2005, at 6.26 pm, Adrian Morgan (aka
> Flesh-eating Dragon)
> wrote:
> > A few people say "chook" for all purposes,
> including references to
> > food. My cousin, for one.
That's what I love about this group. I'm always
hearing odd and obscure words I've never heard before.
 First it was that champion mushroom thingie and now
it's "chook".  Where has that word been hiding all my
60 years?  I've never heard it before.

--gary

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