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Re: OT : Friday Trivia
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Barry Lake <[log in to unmask]>
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Barry Lake <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 4 Aug 2000 12:57:21 -0700
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At 3:35 PM -0400 8/4/00, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Barry writes:
>
>> The only word with the combination "tp" is saltpeter.
>
>That would be true, if it weren't for all of these other words:
>
... [excellent list snipped]...

Thanks!!!

>and
>
>          SALTPETER

I pulled that incorrect little factoid out of a dated word games book I had
as a child, and never bothered to confirm its veracity. Mea Culpa.

(We all know that we can't believe everything we read, and certainly no one
should believe anything I write!!!)

B.

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