Do we say auk or awk

auk 15 occurrences

" [Footnote 1: The Auk, vol.

The extinction of the Labrador duck and the great auk have often been deplored.

The last skeleton of the great auk was sold for $600, the last skin for $650, and the last egg brought the fabulous sum of $1,500.

A a THE AUK.

A is an Auk, Of the Artic sea, He lives on the ice, Where the winds blow free.

[Illustration: THE AUK.] B

The name of the place is pronounced Mish-i-nim-auk-in-ong, by the Indians, The term mishi, as heard in mishipishiu, panther, and mishigenabik, a gigantic serpent of fabled notoriety, signifies great; nim, appears to be derived from nimi, to dance, and auk from autig, tree or standing object; ong is the common termination for locality, the vowels i (second and fifth syllable) being brought into the compound word as connectives.

The name of the place is pronounced Mish-i-nim-auk-in-ong, by the Indians, The term mishi, as heard in mishipishiu, panther, and mishigenabik, a gigantic serpent of fabled notoriety, signifies great; nim, appears to be derived from nimi, to dance, and auk from autig, tree or standing object; ong is the common termination for locality, the vowels i (second and fifth syllable) being brought into the compound word as connectives.

The terms nim and auk, dance and tree, and the local ong, are introduced to describe the particular locality and circumstances of the mythologic dances.

The French, to whom we owe the original orthography, used ch for sh, interchanged n for l in the third syllable, and modified the syllables auk and ong into the sounds of ackwhich are, I believe, general rules founded on the organs of utterance, in their adoption by that nation of Indian words.

more probably, auk, a generic participle for tree or trunk.

Tom Peregrine shot one a few years back; also a puffin, a bird with a parrot-like beak and of the auk tribe.

He formed a resolution then and there to become a good shot, and although he did not succeed exactly in becoming so that day, he nevertheless managed to put several fine specimens of gulls and an auk into his bag.

* "The Oof Bird" is the Auk, as Cornhill Mag. says its eggs cost £170 apiece,of course when fresh.

" 3.00 Auk, Cambridge .........................

awk 3 occurrences

"Awk!" he said.

* * 13 gust thief mop' ing awk' ward pet' tish

Thomas Harriot says the natives called it open-awk.

Do we say   auk   or  awk