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FOOK DICTIONARY (Original and Photocopy)
Fook Dukskoonooree (repeated in Fook text)

Item date(s): Started 1 May 1981

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982)


Size: 14,4cm

Category: Found
Type: Book

ART 1289

Additional notes:
See also SA/2279.

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.

See also: SA/2279

Ref: GB/50054







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