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Article #17Re: wha?????
From: tim poston
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:58
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:58
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Come now, it's simple etymology.
A cygnet is a baby swan (French "cygne" for swan)
A leveret is a baby hare (French "lie`vre" for hare)
And so on.
A goret is a baby gore (Mediaeval French "goeur" for electronic saxophone).
Or it used to be, where I went to school.
As Yahweh said to Moshe,
keep taking the tablets.
Tim Poston
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Newsgroups: alt.gorets Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!gold!tim From: tim@gold.iss.nus.sg (tim poston) Subject: Re: wha????? Message-ID: <1992Oct15.035809.11056@nuscc.nus.sg> Sender: usenet@nuscc.nus.sg Reply-To: tim@iss.nus.sg (tim poston) Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore References: <1992Oct13.232041.24422@wam.umd.edu> <1992Oct14.010837.6778@pei.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:58:09 GMT Lines: 18