CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
"An Eskimo Legend.—Nov. 1, 1894. Nooktah relates to me the following legendary conversation between an Eskimo and a raven flying over with something in its mouth. 'Sunah kingmiahpeu?' ('What have you in your mouth?') asks the man. 'Inukkoktooah mahmaktoksuah. Eeoquaw; eeoquaw' ('The thigh-bone of a man. It is very sweet. Caw, caw'), answers the raven." From Northward Over the "Great Ice" by Robert E. Peary, 1898. (Note that the tea pot that steams brown bread and defrosts apple sauce technically relates to a previous paragraph.)