> Michael Chapman wrote:
>
>> Think, I might excuse Finnish for not having a word for ossuary,
>> though !
>
> It has, although it possibly wasn't very clear in Sampo's original
> post. The word is "luusto", as he wrote.
>
> Finnish, as many other languages can form an neverending multitude
> of words by combining existing words together.
>

Ah thought that was Sampo's creation (possibly with a US patent
attached ... ;-)>

My donation to English is sibloid (adj., from sibling).
(Seeing as we are apparently archived on the Web, I thought I'd lay
claim before M$ patented it.)

Michael
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