[Coco] furriners, more regional dialect

[Jim Cox]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:59:05 EDT
  KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 8/29/04 10:25:38 PM Eastern Daylight 
>Time, 
>alxevans at concentric.net writes:
>
>> > How about emus?  Do they survive only in crossword 
>>puzzles?  --Mike K.
>>  
>>  Considering the number that I personally have seen over 
>>the years, I 
>>  seriously doubt that they have gone the way of the dodo 
>>and the 
>>  passenger pigeon.
>
>And then there is the Rhea, which I suspect is not only 
>extinct, but appears 
>much more rarely in the crosswords.
>
>Speaking of crossword rarities, who has ever heard of an 
>"ort", meaning a 
>table scrap of food?  My unabridged dictionary says it's 
>a Danish-derived dialect 
>word, so I'd expect northern Midwesterners to know it. 
> But I never, ever, 
>heard or saw it till the x-words.  --Mike K.
>

So I guess you can say that the Ort Cloud on the outskirts 
of our solar system is made up of scraps ;)