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Re: "Wife"

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 22:09
On Thu, 29 May 2003 07:20:28 +1000 Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
writes:
> You will forgive me for taking offence at your comment, but the only > senses of 'dam' (as a noun) I was familiar with till I read John > Cowan's > post, ignoring the homophone 'damn', are an artifical lake generally > in > a farm, an artificial lake caused by damming a river/creek, and the > dam > wall used to make the second sense of dam. I do not enjoy being told > what I do and don't know.
> Tristan <kesuari@...>
- You use "dam" to mean "lake made by a dam"? I don't think i've heard of that before. -Stephen (Steg) "dos iz nit der šteg!"

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Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>