"robyks" <robyks@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 02:43:58 +1300, "Paul J Kriha"
> <paul.nospam.kriha@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >> > What's "louc^" in English? My idiotic dictionary says
> >> > "resinuous wood". Yeah, okay, but what do you call those
> >> > thin pieces of wood used for lighting in medieval times.
> >> > And I don't mean torches.
> >> > pjk
> >>
> >> Why *don't* you mean torches?
> >
> >Because I don't. I mean "louc^", not "pochoden^".
> >
> >> In American English it is exactly what that is ;-)
> >
> >Okay then, but I wouldn't know much about that.
> >pjk
>
> Try "taper". In Collins it corresponds with louc^, in a fa****on.
Okay, we have another word.
In my Collins it's something like a spill, or a thin candle.
> BTW, it is cheering to see a correct spelling of Fluorescent. Far too
> often one encounters Flourescent.
That spelling is probably favoured by people more
familiar with scent of flour than smell of fluor. :-)
pjk
> roByks
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