[Fictionary] Re: Re: reremouse ballot

[eLLioTT morEton]

[Looking it up after voting:]

> reremouse - n - an archaic or dialect word for bat [Old English
> hrÿÿremÿÿs, probably from hrÿÿran "to move" + mÿÿs "mouse"]

So apparently a vowel with a macron over it shows up in my mailreader as 
two question marks rather than one.  Bummer!   I guess that makes sense, 
if the reader is expecting 8 bits per character and the source character 
is 16 bits wide.

> reremouse - n. - (occ. rere mouse) a railroad handcart (fr Maori rere
> moza, railroad + man [="human-powered railroad"])

In fact, not only does Maori lack [z], it doesn't even have [s], which is 
normally a prerequisite.

> reremouse, n. An unidentified bird reported by Capt. John Hawkins in
> Cartagena, Colombia.

The kid in _Treasure Island_ was *Jack* Hawkins. Wikipedia says there was 
an Admiral John Hawkins who was the ``chief architect of the Elizabethan 
navy'' in more ways than one.  He also invented the triangle trade 
(goods-slaves-rum).  I hope Stevenson didn't name young Jack after old 
John.

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