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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: small town near here called Albuquerque #95349 02/13/03 06:17 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Albuquerque comes from Latin meaning "white oak" The botanical name for the white oaks is Quercus alba...Oak white. That's right! It just hit me (again)! Albu--men: egg whites. Well, DLS, I actually like the caps (thanks, tsuwm!). And at least your team name isn't as ridiculous as ours: the Riverbats [shudder]. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Dunkirk/Dunkerque DLS 02/12/03 03:20 PM Re: Dunkirk/Dunkerque dxb 02/12/03 04:18 PM Re: Dunkirk/Dunkerque wwh 02/12/03 04:51 PM Re: Dunkirk/Dunkerque DLS 02/13/03 05:02 PM Re: Dunkirk/Dunkerque Faldage 02/13/03 05:54 PM Re: Dunkirk/Dunkerque tsuwm 02/13/03 06:02 PM Re: Dunkirk/Dunkerque Faldage 02/13/03 06:06 PM small town near here called Albuquerque TEd Remington 02/12/03 10:19 PM Re: small town near here called Albuquerque wwh 02/12/03 10:41 PM Re: small town near here called Albuquerque Wordwind 02/12/03 10:59 PM Re: small town near here called Albuquerque Jackie 02/13/03 06:17 PM Re: small town near here called Albuquerque DLS 02/12/03 11:47 PM Re: small town near here called Albuquerque Jackie 02/13/03 02:50 AM Re: small town near here called Albuquerque wwh 02/13/03 03:03 AM Re: small town near here called Albuquerque dxb 02/13/03 10:01 AM Requiem sharks Jackie 02/13/03 01:40 PM Re: Dona eis requiem Faldage 02/13/03 01:51 PM Re: Dona eis requiem dxb 02/13/03 02:03 PM 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 Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,378 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 1 members (wofahulicodoc), 274 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 32 A C Bowden 26 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,566 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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