Wordie: Ulu: Comments

Comment by oroboros, 4 months ago

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:52:40 +0000

According to Chris Cole in Wordplay, the shortest (with two others, uku & utu) "uncommon word" beginning and ending with letter 'u'.

Comment by errguitar, 4 months ago

Mon, 19 May 2008 02:19:04 +0000

Ulu: Jungle, Glossary of Words, "Green Beret, Red Star" by Anthony Crockett, London 1954, Eyre & Spottiswoode

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:06:55 +0000

"Artefacts have also surfaced, making suggestions about how people lived in Nuvuk. Here, a body holds an ulu, a traditional knife used for taking blubber from whale carcasses; there, a grave gives up weights from a bolus which would have been used to hunt birds."
- 'Bodies Point To Alaska's Past', Richard Black, BBC website 31 Dec 2007.