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Re: USAGE: plunk/plank

From:Aquamarine Demon <aquamarine_demon@...>
Date:Friday, January 18, 2002, 23:45
>>Merriam Webster On-line (http://www.m-w.com) gives a near meaning of 'plank' that >>apply:plank (verb):2 : SET DOWN 1, 2 -- usually used with down3 : to cook and >>serve on a board <planked salmon> <planked steak>I've always seen the word >>'trivet' used, but I have no doubt that
regional differences exist. (I grew up on the West Coast of the US FWIW.)Gregory Gadow<< I can honestly say that I've never heard plank OR trivet, so I had no idea what anyone was really talking about until someone mentioned potholder. I've live in the West US all my life, too... but I guess there are a lot more differences in the West than in others because it's still a lot newer, and there is a lot of people from different places moving here... anyways.... The Aquamarine Demon "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry." -Edgar Allan Poe "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." -Mark Twain --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail.