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#61869 03/23/02 08:18 PM
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Dear MaxQ: Some parental admonishments fail tragically. To wit, the mother who repeatedly told her daughter that she must not let the boyfriend get on top of her, "because Mother would worry." So when daughter came home, Mother demanded "Did you let him get on top of you?" Daughter replied: "No, I got on top of him and now his mother can worry!"


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Eastre was an Anglo-Saxon goddess whose festival happened to be celebrated at more or less the time the Christians who converted them celebrated Easter. I think I'm right in saying most other languages use cognates of the English Paschal, which ultimately derive from the Hebrew word for Passover.

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A little late to be re-entering the fray but since I apparently started it with my tale of 35-years-ago naivete, let me clarify that when I thought PreMarIn was a contraceptive, I was MISTAKEN !

It isn't. Not processed or natural. Never was promoted as such. It just keeps some of the more annoying symptoms of menopause at bay. Less expensive generic equivalent is just as effective, by the way.


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I think I'm right in saying most other languages use cognates of the English Paschal

On the only two I know you only score 50%

German: das Ostern >very close to the English in structure in that the root, OST = east.

French: les Pâques. Which is close, but Paschal actually translates to "pascal"


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Pasqua in Italian.


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Spanish: pascua
Portuguese: pâscoa


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Dutch pasen
Indonesian paskal

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The land mass now known as the state of Florida got it's name because a ship of Spaniards "found" it(I didn't know it was lost!) on Easter Sunday. In Spanish, this is known by the term "Pascua Florida". Florida means flowery or adorned.


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And the Indonesian island of Flores got its name from the Portuguese word for flowers.

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