Word: skookum
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...statement, “Are you serious? We went from shrapnel to Gethsemane?” As the competition reached its later stages, the field was trimmed dramatically due to the appearance of words that not even Microsoft Word’s spellcheck could comprehend, such as fomites, skookum, and sialogogue. By this point, the number of contestants was reduced to four: Mass. Hall’s Athena L. Lao, Greenough’s Steven N. Maheshwary, Richard C. Alt of Matthews, and Pennypacker’s Ryan D. Smith. All four contestants spelled their words incorrectly in the initial...
...tongue has fallen into almost complete disuse within the past generation or two, and most of the residents of the Pacific Northwest know nothing of it beyond the few words that have gone into everyday colloquial English use in that region [such as]: skookum, siwash, tilikum, cultus and cheechako...
...Skookum: powerful, strong; siwash: savage, uncivilized; tilikum: common people; cultus: of little worth...
Technicolor makes the landscapes of the U.S. Northwest look as handsome and healthy as skookum apples. It also makes fire look very fiery while the sound of rushing flames suggests the rumpling of tons of cellophane. So long as The Forest Rangers sticks to these simple properties, and to firefighting methods, the picture is gaudy, noisy, unsafe and sane. But all too soon Cinemactress Goddard falls off a horse and flattens Cinemactor MacMurray, who immediately feels (or so he says) "like I had swallowed a comet." While he digests it, which takes a long time, fires are in abeyance...
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