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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: Unusual professions mct919 #167336 04/05/07 02:31 AM Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 8 China M MosesLiang stranger MosesLiang stranger M Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 8 China I wonder if you are from USA or not.In China now,especially among younger generations,a US TV play called<Prison Break>is extremely popular here.In the latest episode of Season II,in order to save his brother Lincon Burrows,the protagonist Michael Scofield asked a teenage boy called Chaco to help him to find a notorious drug dealer.Today I googled this word"Chaco" and learned the following:The Gran Chaco (Quechua chaqu, "hunting land"), dubbed by some as "the last South American frontier", is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided between Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina". Interesting I think. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Unusual professions MosesLiang #167338 04/05/07 02:42 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 There's a Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Unusual professions Faldage #167340 04/05/07 03:01 AM Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 72 Land where ne'er-do-wells rule... Curuinor journeyman Curuinor journeyman Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 72 Land where ne'er-do-wells rule... Prison Break is still on in US TV. Chaco, subscribing to the fairly low standards of network TV, is simply a Spanish-sounding name. Perhaps related to Chico, "boy". Last edited by Curuinor; 04/05/07 03:01 AM. I exist! I am a pedant! I have a foreboding signature! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,342 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 491 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 20 ddrinnan 1 LukeJavan8 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,546 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,917 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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