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Re: A Writing on Speechken (was: An ungothroughsome riddle)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, March 8, 2001, 19:21
Steg Belsky wrote:


>> Go for it, O Roof-wyrm.
> Okay, i get the "wyrm" part, if you're doing something with my email > address.... but where does "roof" come from? Isn't "fire" a perfectly > good native Germanic word? And if it has nothing to do with my email > address, what is it? :-)
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