Baron von Skippy on 22 Mar 2003 02:26:01 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Changing Unanimous Yes


But that means you just have to remember how to spell 'receive'.
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Rob Speer

-Welcome to this glorious hodgepodge we laughingly call a language... Has anyone ever /looked/ at words to see how odd some of them really are? Like, where did we get "hodgepodge" from, anyway?-

[[BvS]]

Hodgepodge is an alteration of Middle English hochepot, and that's from the Old French word for stew.

Really.  You should know better than to ask such questions here.

-The defense rests...-

[[BvS]]

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