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  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!math.ksu.edu!deadend
  3. From: frandag@math.ksu.edu (Francis Fung)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,sci.physics,alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranormal,alt.conspiracy
  5. Subject: Re: Sarfatti Forteana
  6. Date: 31 Dec 1992 00:52:34 -0600
  7. Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University
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  9. Message-ID: <1hu5biINN10e@hilbert.math.ksu.edu>
  10. References: <1992Dec30.223943.3346@trl.oz.au>
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  12.  
  13. That's a neat thing you mentioned about the possibility
  14. of a word being borrowed backwards. I know of no  example
  15. of such either, but a borrowing from French to Hebrew is
  16. a more probable place for such a thing to happen
  17. given the writing directions. Intriguing question.
  18. Incidentally, do you by any chance know the
  19. derivation of the word "Yankee"? Just a non
  20. sequitur. :) Have fun!
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