Re: OT: Socks (jara: piano)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 15:39 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Markus Miekk-oja scripsit:
>
> > They're actually quite comfortable - and I guess, decrease the risk of
> > developing certain fungi-related problems (don't know the English word,
> > "fotsvamp" is the Swedish word) between toes.
>
> "Athlete's foot".
>
The Swedish looks suspiciously like "foot-swamp"-- it it?("swamp-foot" would
make sense-- GIs in WW2, Korea,Vietnam used to call a very advanced form
"jungle rot")