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- From: dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Palestine.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.123709.24837@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 12:37:09 GMT
- References: <LARRY.92Dec11223238@peak.nmsu.edu> <1992Dec15.154603.21840@spectrum.xerox.com> <BzMt2G.LLu@vcd.hp.com>
- Sender: news@parc.xerox.com
- Reply-To: dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish)
- Organization: Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, UK
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- In article <BzMt2G.LLu@vcd.hp.com>, dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe) writes:
- > eradm@wbst845e.xerox.com writes:
- > This reminded me of a section in Willard R. Espy's "Words at Play"; I don't
- > know how accurate it is.
-
- > English place names:
- [...]
- > Abergavenny aber-genny
- [...]
- > Pontrefact pom-fret
-
- God, there's that plate tectonics effect again. Watch out everyone!
- Abergavenny and Pontefract appear to have moved to England in some
- curious freak geological accident! I bet they're both *really* pissed
- off, too.
-
- Peeve: People who can't tell the difference between the nations of the
- United Kingdom. These people are largely American or English,
- curiously.
-
- -- Paul (a Scot in England)
-
- --
- Paul Dourish, Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, UK <dourish@europarc.xerox.com>
-
- "Ain't they got no barbers where you come from, boy?"
-