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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: An observation
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 05:46:01 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA (Peter Montgomery) says:
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- >
- >> Given the songs she was singing, and opera plots in general, it was
- >> more like a schmaltz diet.:-)
- >
- >Would that, by any chance, be a Viennese Schmatz?
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- No, but it might be a Vienna Schmaltz, von Strauss. [and roll your Rs when
- you say that, kid!:-)]
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- >BTW, biscuit also means twice cooked. (For what it's worth.)
- >
- I can believe it. French origin, I'll bet. Bi plus the verb for to cook,
- "cuire" in its past tense.[or one of them]
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