On Mar 17, 2011, at 9:02 AM, David Davis wrote: > http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/ > > The Word of the Day for March 17 is:=20 > > galley-west \gal-ee-WEST\ adverb > : into destruction or confusion > > > "American author Mark Twain is on record as one of the first to use > "galley-west" in his writing. Etymologists believe the word is a > corruption of dialectal English "colleywest" or "collyweston." The > earliest appearance of those words, used with the meaning "askew or > awry," dates from the late 16th century. The ultimate source of > "colleywest" and "collyweston" is not known but is suspected to be > from > a personal name. When "galley-west" is used in speech or writing, the > verb "knock" usually precedes it." > > [Interesting. I don't know that he made-up many words - Shakespeare a > far greater coiners of neologisms than our boy. Does anyone recall > where > he used this one? /DDD ] He used it in Huckleberry Finn, The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts and Life on the Mississippi...perhap, among others??