Looking back on this year, there are some unsolved cases of word puzzles the DA Detective Agency needs your help on. | David Astle
Here at the DA Detective Agency – alias DADA – some cases clear fast. Like the plural of roof , or the pronunciation of cicada . OK, so both verdicts remain open, but the cases are deemed shut. Next!
David Astle is on the case of tracking down the meaning of words, like investigator A.S. Newman from the Pinkerton’s Investigation agency in the 1950s.Was there a word to categorise these accidental hieroglyphs? Playfully yes, a label suggested by an informant, David Lamb. Opinions vary, from pictographs to ideograms, terms alluding to the sharkish outline of shark, say, but the solution to satisfy my client was iconomatopoeia.
Yet now, a new year upon us, I need to sweep the desk, tie a bow in the tougher investigations. Less cold cases so much as tepid; mysteries lacking a definitive outcome. James Joseph, for example, filed his query in November:“My two-year-old goes to daycare. In the newsletter, they talk about excursions and incursions, where they wander the adjacent school’s grounds. Surely an incursion applies to a military assault, rather than a bunch of toddlers visiting a veggie patch.
Still with kids, a second case came from Christine O’Neill: “Sixty years ago, we spoke a secret dialect at Gosford High, a language called Arp. It worked like pig Latin, but with arp before each syllable.” Gosford, say, would be Garposfarpord. “Where did it come from?”Rooves, I felt like saying. Ask me about rooves. Or cicadas. But some cases demand time with no guarantee of a tidy finish.
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