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To: bushpilot1

Pickering, John (?1776–1846) linguist, philologist, attorney; born in Salem, Mass. (son of Timothy Pickering). He graduated from Harvard (1796) and spent several years in Europe with the United States Diplomatic Corps. After returning to Masssachusetts, he practiced law and served in the state senate. He wrote many books and articles on language, including the first collection of American word usages (1816) and a Greek-English dictionary (1st edition, 1826). He was also a leading authority on the languages of North American Indians.

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Pickering%2c+John


2,732 posted on 10/27/2010 2:46:49 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE; patlin; Red Steel; rxsid

thanks..is there a relation to the Founder John Pickering.

The definition I posted linking the two words natural and indigenous is from John Pickering.

Do we have Founder..you know what I mean.

http://books.google.com.ph/books?id=JwgtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=greek+english+lexicon&hl=en&ei=U5LITPKPKZCrceP6kIUO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=natural&f=false


2,736 posted on 10/27/2010 3:05:19 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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