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Old November 28th, 2008, 04:12 PM posted to rec.travel.europe,uk.politics.misc,rec.travel.usa-canada,rec.travel.australia+nz,rec.sport.rugby.union
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Default A-Z of English words with surprising origins

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:24:24 -0600, "Jim Davis"
wrote:


"Uncle Dave" wrote in message
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On Nov 27, 11:24 am, Miles Vaches wrote:

snip ad

You missed one - WTF. As in "WTF has this got to do with rugby?" Oh,
and you failed to include "spam".

Actually, WTF does this have to do with *any* of these groups?


And he left out two groups that would have been appropriate:
alt.usage.english and alt.english.usage.

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