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- From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
- Subject: Re: 2-strokes (was:Re: REQUEST: short fella has a question or two...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.170603.4044@bnr.uk>
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- References: <1992Nov22.225846.22950@rp.CSIRO.AU>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:06:03 GMT
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- Patrick Jordan (pjordan@rp.CSIRO.AU) wrote:
- : jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine) writes:
- : > Nick, the British biker who works for a Canadian company writes:
- : > >If you can't tell the difference between pounds avoirdupoi and pounds sterling
- : > ^^^^^^^^^^s
- : > Second, I can spell in the Queen's English better than you can (despite the
- : > silly pronouciation)!
- :
- : avoirdupois? C'est un mot francais, pas anglais, n'est-ce pas?
- : (Or at least with very french origins)
- :
- : --
- :
- : Be seeing you!
- :
- : Patrick.
-
- O foolish child! Know not the ancestry of thine own language? Admittedly
- bastadised to hell, but almost the same as mine.
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- It means goods by weight. "aveir de peis" In Old French.
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- Does the date 1066 mean anything to you?
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- Nick (Le Francophile Biker) MAG 73516 DoD 1069 AD 1066
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- M'sure.
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