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[telophase]

Do any of you librarians or students or teachers work for an institution that has an online subscription to the Dictionary of American Regional English? I forgot to look something up in our dead-tree version at work today.

(If it's past, say, 10PM Central, don't worry; I'll go look it up at work tomorrow. Just wodnering if I cna get an answer faster. :))

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[thistleingrey]

Yes, though it's only ten min till your deadline. What do you want to look up?

[telophase]

Hour ten til my deadline. :D

The offensive term "Eskimo brothers" or something like it: is it *in* there, and if it is, does it list other slang terms for it (two people who sleep with the same third person)?

Thank you!

[thistleingrey]

Heh, right, I was thinking Eastern. No hits for "Eskimo brothers" or "Eskimo brother"; the index says that phrases beginning with "Eskimo" are

Eskimo ice cream n • AK
Eskimo potato n • AK
Eskimo yo-yo n • AK

and of the hits for "brother," none seems semantically likely.

p.s. If you have other suggestions for searching, let me know; I'll be afk for 10-15 minutes, then back.

[telophase]

Alas! Well, thank you kindly! :D

[telophase]

And no, I have no idea what else to search. If I want to keep the conceit in the passage, and the callback a few pages later, it's got to be family-related, so I'll probably just play around with things like 'kissing cousin' and 'sheet sibling' for now.