Beginnings

The Bible reminds us of beginnings. In John's gospel, he writes, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was with God in the beginning." (John 1:1-2) Also, in the first book Genesis, it says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light." (Genesis 1:1,3) Wow, amazing!

So here's the beginning of my blog in Chevak. I chose the name "ghoti" for a good reason. English playwright George Bernard Shaw was quite a cynic. He absolutely despised the English writing system pointing out its inadequacies and especially its lack of logic. He arued that the word "fish" might as well be spelled "ghoti" instead. Notice the sounds in the word "gh-o-ti", where gh=the gh sound in tough, o=the o sound in women, and ti=the ti in nation. Hence, ghoti=fish. Fishy, eh?

The Eskimos are known to be big fish eaters and especially the Yup'ik/Cup'ik Eskimos. In fact, folklore suggests that the very word "Eskimo" comes from an Algonkian language meaning "eaters of raw meat/fish." The generic word for fish in Yup'ik (I believe in Cup'ik as well) is neqa, which also by the way is a generic word for food.

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