omni omni umanum

[ritaxis]

I like writing omni.

Just saying.

I don't know if I've ever written omni before, though the Marek and Jackson stories came pretty close.


Also, there is a mountain in the central Coast Ranges -- maybe the Santa Cruz Mountains, or maybe another of the parallel ranges which I honestly can't tell where one stops and the next starts -- which is named Umanum. Shirley, the Elkhorn Slough docent said it was Ohlone word for hummingbird. Somebody else says it's the word for butterfly.

I just like saying omni omni umanum.

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[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I wrote Omni a letter on their first issue, and it got published in, I think, the second one.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I just don't know what to say about that.

Umunhum

[towse.livejournal.com]

Umunhum is the way it's usually spelled, but it's all a transliteration of the spoken word anyway. I remember the spelling because it was never as straight-forward as the spelling you have. I must have had it as a spelling word growing up at some point. Mount Umunhum is the second highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

I grew up across the valley: we could see the radar at the peak on a clear day. The radar and the installation are long since abandoned.

This page (http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/153994/mount-umunhum.html) has lots of information. Some of it useful.