# Mattak *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Mar 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Wesley Parsons (7065) *20 Mar 1997, 18:18* >> Gee, will Mattak be a chip off the old block?<< I understand from some of the same sources that mattak means "dried whale flesh" in Inuit. (I assume in a particular Inuit dialect--there's more than one.) Oosik and Mattak, like many members of Vironese families, have related names. Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---