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Re: OT: Socks (jara: piano)

From:Markus Miekk-oja <fam.miekk-oja@...>
Date:Friday, May 30, 2003, 13:35
>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")
Svamp = mushroom but in Swedish, any fungus can be called svamp, even mould and mildew are svampar. - Markus

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