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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CS.UCHICAGO.EDU!SAMANT
  3. Return-Path: <samant@cs.uchicago.edu>
  4. Message-ID: <9301261043.AA21522@tartarus.uchicago.edu>
  5. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  6. Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:43:38 CST
  7. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  8. From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
  9. Subject:      Re: Asians
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  12. >   Stamboul. That's the only thing I remember about Agatha Christie - she
  13. >   calls Istanbul "Stamboul".
  14. >
  15. >Constantinople.  The destination of the "Orient Express" was
  16. >Constantinople...until it became Istanbul.
  17.  
  18. Are you trying to say that I don't remember even that one word from Agatha
  19. Christie's novels? I'd have sworn there was "Stamboul" in several of her
  20. books.
  21.  
  22. tushar
  23.