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Re: USAGE: plunk/plank

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Thursday, January 17, 2002, 9:02
In a message dated 01/17/02 12:29:56 AM, anstouh@YAHOO.COM.AU writes:

<< It's a thing put on a table that you put hot things onto so that
you don't damage the table or similar.  As far as I can tell, it's just
used by my family---what is the normal word for it? >>

    The "normal" word for it is "trivet".  I put "normal" in quotes because
I'd never heard of it, but I girlfriend seems to know it, as does my mother.

-David

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