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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: An observation
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 00:10:48 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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- >> No, but it might be a Vienna Schmaltz, von Strauss. [and roll your Rs when
- >> you say that, kid!:-)]
- >
- >SO what's in an el, besides a few hundred commuters??
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- A letter between 'K' and 'M'? A retarded eel? Part of a furlong?
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- >> 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]
- >So why would having had the biscuit mean that one is probably
- >half baked?
- >
- >[Sorry ;=}]
- Don't be, it's in the wrong dialect anyway. I didn't understand it....
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