Lately, some parts of the country have been hammered by tornadoes and flooding, and in one news report, I saw a video of a stop sign with flood waters halfway up the post, that I said to myself must have been in the area of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the capitol of the Cherokee Nation. I immediately read the sign as saying "alewisdiha", the Cherokee word for "stop", which was actually no great feat, considering that the sign looked like this:
If I encountered the word in another context, I would probably have figured out that it was a form of "alewisdo'di" and had something to do with stopping - it's one of the very few words that I recognize and know what they mean. Funny what sticks in your mind from your reading, and what doesn't.
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Lately, some parts of the country have been hammered by tornadoes and flooding, and in one news report, I saw a video of a stop sign with flood waters halfway up the post, that I said to myself must have been in the area of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the capitol of the Cherokee Nation. I immediately read the sign as saying "alewisdiha", the Cherokee word for "stop", which was actually no great feat, considering that the sign looked like this:
If I encountered the word in another context, I would probably have figured out that it was a form of "alewisdo'di" and had something to do with stopping - it's one of the very few words that I recognize and know what they mean. Funny what sticks in your mind from your reading, and what doesn't.