Word: manx
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...offshore tax haven, a center for high finance and home to more than 60 banks, but the Isle of Man remains a down-to-earth place. Exile millionaires live quietly amid the 72,000 Manx residents, and the sense of affluence that pervades its sister tax havens, like the more southerly and glamorous Channel Islands, is less evident in this wind-battered scrap of land lying roughly equidistant from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. "We have a northern, gritty approach to things here," says John Cashen, chief financial officer to the Manx Treasury. "We have to work harder for every...
When most people look at Ally Loeb, they would never guess that a loud and horrific screech could exit her lips. However, Ally's ability to imitate the Manx Shearwater birdcall not only got her on the Dave Letterman show, but gave her the coveted opportunity to meet George Clooney and Steve Isaacson...
John Lacouture keeps 35 birds and 16 Manx inhis Woonsocket, R.I. house. He feeds his cats rawhambuger neat which he buys in bulk at a greyhoundrace track. "My cat friends and my vet arescandalized, they say there is too much bacteriaand I should cook the meat, but I figure, theyfeed it to the greyhounds which are worth 50grand...
...Gorilla Foundation in Woodside, Calif., for half a year before scampering out and into traffic. Koko, 13, who is said to have a sign-language vocabulary of about 500 words, indicated to a research associate that she wanted a replacement and picked out a drawing of a Manx, a rare breed with no tail. And now Koko has her wish, an orange male Manx kitten. "Baby," signaled the thrilled Koko. "My cat good." Michael, the center's male talking gorilla who lives in the next cage, would like the cat to be his and has proposed Banana as a name...
...have been. Slang needs to be new. Its life is brief, intense and slightly disreputable, like adolescence. Soon it either settles down and goes into the family business of the language (like taxi and cello and hi) or, more likely, slips off into oblivion, dead as Oscan and Manx. The evening news should probably broadcast brief obituaries of slang words that have passed on. The practice would prevent people from embarrassing themselves by saying things like swell or super. "Groovy, descendant of cool and hip, vanished from the language today...