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#183610 - 03/15/09 03:16 PM Re: those pesky Ferengi [Re: tsuwm]
Carpal Tunnel
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Godiva
Never knew what chocolate had to do with the Godiva legend.
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#183616 - 03/15/09 06:17 PM
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Loc: Auckland, New Zealand
The justification for profit is profit
Ferengi rule of aquisition number 202
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#183617 - 03/15/09 06:18 PM
enthusiast
Registered: 11/24/07
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Loc: कहीं &...
Is the consonantal similarity between firangi and foreign just coincidence?
Yup. For one thing, the G in foreign wasn't added till after ME. The word is from Latin foranus. Feringhi is from Frank from Latin francus, ultimately of Germanic origin.
Thank you.
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#183633 - 03/16/09 01:12 PM
old hand
Registered: 06/23/08
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Loc: Frozenwastesistan
Godiva
Never knew what chocolate had to do with the Godiva legend.
Neither did I! I love the big old clock in Coventry. Quite a legend, if legend it be._________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
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#183635 - 03/16/09 01:31 PM
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#183649 - 03/16/09 07:00 PM 
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#183651 - 03/16/09 07:51 PM
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German Gift 'poison' (cf. English dose).
theobromine
From Greek theos 'god' + broma 'food'.
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#183660 - 03/17/09 05:03 PM
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Quite a legend, if legend it be.
godgifu- interesting contradiction.
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#183668 - 03/18/09 01:42 AM
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Loc: USA, North Carolina
During World War II, my sister and I were favorites on the block because our dad, who was stationed in the South Pacific, sent us Australian chocolate periodically. We were the only kids on the block who had chocolate throughout the war. We shared it out. It was rich and dark. Sometimes the surface was dusted with alkali powder that had leached out in transit. But we just brushed it off and ignored it.
There is a scene in "Band of Brothers" that occurred during Operation Market-Garden. An American G.I. shares some of his chocolate candy ration with a young Dutch child, whose father says that his child had never had chocolate candy before. Isn't the Netherlands right next door to Belgium?
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#183670 - 03/18/09 05:14 AM
Carpal Tunnel
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You could call it a duplex.
Edited by BranShea (03/18/09 05:16 AM)
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