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- From: galt%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Greg Alt)
- Subject: Re: IN _____ THEY HAVE ___ DIFFERENT WORDS FOR ________
- Date: 25 Aug 92 12:00:34 MDT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.120034.3146@hellgate.utah.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah, CS Dept., Salt Lake City
- References: <7335@skye.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <7335@skye.ed.ac.uk>, ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes:
- >In Iceland they have 8 different words for Snow
- >In Italy they have 42 different words for Buttocks
- >In Spain they have 58 different words for Sleep
- >In Hungary they have 32 different words for Sausage
- >In Scotland they have 0 words for Rush
- >In Argentina they have 671 different words for Secret Police
- >In America they have 5630 words for Car
- >In Britain we have 260 different words for Food Poisoning
- In alt.cascade, they have 1 word for misc.test baitors
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