Re: Weekly Vocab 6: to know
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 8, 2003, 21:31 |
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:40:23PM +0200, Henrik Theiling wrote:
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> Well, why should a 'toad' be connected to death? Is that really so?
> Any sources for this?
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My (wild, uninformed) guess is that toads were thought to be poisonous.
The skin on a toad's back was supposed to contain some venom or something.
I'm not sure if this has any basis in biology, though.
T
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