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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:32:39 GMT
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- From: Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: An observation
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- >As best I can tell, melba toast is just thin Zweibach.
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- I like this! I think it's called, in Latin, defining the obscure by th
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- more obscure. However, I was a bit hasty with this query, because even t
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- rotten Canadian webster I'm now reduced to invoking had the answer:
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- Zwei + bach -> two + bake -> bis + cuit ?
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