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FOOK DICTIONARY
Fook Dukskoonooree (repeated in Fook text)

Item date(s): Started 1 May 1981

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 144mm


Place publication: Pretoria
Publisher: The artist
Previous reference SA/2279

Additional notes:
See also: CMD 1289. This is the original Ms. Provenance: Giles Battiss. Also a photocopy duplicate.

Tabbed alphabetical index 14.4 x 10cm. The Fook Dictionary: Fook language translated into English.

In the Dictionary, the word 'Dictionary' is given as WROKKOOB (Bookwork, backwards) or DUKSKOONOOREE.

The cover:

1st line: Janus-bird on a pedestal in a cartouche | FOOK | Janus-head in a cartouche | Janus-bust.

2nd line: DOOKSKANOOREE [the 'OO' replace 'AR' which is deleted.

3rd line: DUKSKOONOOREE [the final 'E' is smaller than the rest of the word].

4th line: Flower-decoration | Caligraphy Squiggle | Flower-decoration.

5th line: FOOK [divider symbol] [in Fook script].

6th line: DOOKSKANOOREE [full-stop symbol] [In Fook script].

7th line [indistinct]: 3 MAY TOONKIKI [Twelve in Fook script] 1981[indecipherable Fook script]

Page 1:

For plural: Add suffix OO or U [all underlined]

WOMAN'S LANGUAGE [all underlined]

Start sentence with OOZ

= I, a female, say this:-

(give special words used only be females) BODY words [all underlined]

MEN'S LANGUAGE [all underlined]

Start sentence with ZIZ

= I, a male, say this:- BODY WORDS

(give special words only used by males) [all underlined]

Money [underlined] 1AK = 1 Dollar

1 TIK = 1 cent

100 = HOONDOOK

1000 = THOOKSOOK

1000000 = MILOOK

Page 2:

Started 1 May 1981 [all underlined]

Then the dictionary starts and continues to the penultimate page.

The final page has details of numbers and measurements etc.

See Excel spreadsheet for numbering of pages, index etc.

Ref: GB/30018







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