Word: potu
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...scholarship. Virtually every entry is meticulously catalogued for its geographic roots, first recorded usage, evolution of meaning and the most subtle shading of sound. Pronunciation Editor James Hartman particularly prizes manniporchia, a northern Maryland word for the DTs. The dictionary's investigators traced it to the Latin mania a potu, meaning craziness from drink, with the r tossed in from the habitual inflection of the region. "The detective work involved is exciting--to weird people," says Hartman. The white-haired Cassidy, already hard at the second volume and, despite his years, determined to see the heroic work through...
...quinto potu, vasto potamus hiatu...
...Potu septeno laetus cum corpore pleno...
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