Words to Your Mother Index (9/4/06)

Words to Your Mother keeps plugging along, and has now focused on 51 different words and phrases. Here's an updated alphabetical index of what's been covered so far.  Some of the more distinctively non-English words have notes as to the language they are from and used in.  Words written in non-Latin character sets are alphabetized by approximate English spellings.

abugida
Ἀγάπη (agape) (Koine Greek)
amiga (Spanish)
apothecary
baleen
beaucoup
caduceus
certitude
chào (Vietnamese)
chiropodist
colporteur
contemn
decimation
devolve
懂嗎 (懂吗/dong ma) (Mandarin Chinese)
draconian
ebay (Pig Latin)
embarazada (Spanish)
estuary
flustrated
fulsome
harangue
icthys
impeachment
impress
inter arma enim silent leges (Latin)
ជំរាបសួរ (joom reeup sooa) (Cambodian/Khmer)
junk
khara (Sanskrit)
klaatu barada nikto (fictional language)
louche
maximal
miter
n'est-ce pas (French)
noblesse oblige (French)
nuqneH (Klingon)
panacea
pangram
perestroika
philology
postlude
Rashomon effect
schadenfreude
screed
souma yergon (Wolof [?])
sushi
tchotchke (Yiddish)
uhuru (Swahili)
verisimilitude
whom
zimbra (not a real word)

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