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echo: crossfire
to: MIMI GALLANDT
from: TOM WALKER
date: 2009-06-12 08:37:00
subject: Valkyrie Re: Coup to

MG> RN> What do you do when you come upon a word or group of words in the
MG> RN> book(s) you're reading that you don't know the definition of?

MG>On the rare occasion when that happens I look it up. I have a decent vocabul
MG>in English and some in German, French and Spanish. Words are wonderful thing
MG>and it rubs me wrong when someone uses them incorrectly. I know that what we
MG>call potato chips the Brits call crisps, what they call biscuits we call
MG>cookies, they'd say we're the ones using the words incorrectly, but that
MG>argument will probably never be resolved.

Being Automoble Oriented I would add the Brit words Bonnet and Boot
for Hood and Trunk Lid!!  :-)  :-)
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