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- From: connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: Another HELP: English word (we think)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.225914.5166@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:59:14 -0600
- References: <1993Jan22.011029.11686@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Organization: Memphis State University
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- In article <1993Jan22.011029.11686@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, st891487@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
- > Does anybody out there know what a "gastine" is? We're sure it's a noun,
- > we think it's English, and we're positive it's a real word. We also can't
- > find it in any dictionaries. It rhymes with "gasline", that's not a typo.
- > Help Help!
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- Just maybe it's a fancy spa, based on a misspelling of Bad Gastein?
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- Otherwise it's part of a fork in the road near a filling station?
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- --Leo Connolly
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