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Re: Interesting Words

From:Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <irina@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 18:19
On Tuesday 06 November 2001 16:17, Muke Tever wrote:
> From: "Andrew Chaney" <adchaney@...>
> > Humus is something you get in Greek & Lebanese restaurants that > > tastes like sand mixed in wheat paste. > > 'ats *hummus*! ;p
So it is, and if it tastes like sand mixed in wheat paste someone did something wrong. Remind me to make it for you when you're ever over here.
> What we need is to start an rumor about how English only has one > word for "a piece of coiled metal", "a natural upwelling of water", > "to jump nimbly into the air", "the growing season", and "to escape > someone from prison".
But that's *true*!
> Eventually it'll snowball into "English only > has one word for everything" and then we can all go home.
LOL! Irina -- irina@valdyas.org http://www.valdyas.org/irina --------------------------------------------------------------------- By my troth, we that have good wits have much to answer for. We shall be flouting; we cannot hold. - William Shakespeare, _As You Like It_