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Re: The O'Reilly Test
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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Jul 1999 17:57:37 -0700
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Deryk Barker ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Not quite, but you are very close.  I looked it up in the COD and found
>that it doesn come from the Latin for bear, as I'd suspected, but from the
>Greek-derived Latin word for "speak like a foreigner".

I hoped Dave will permit me just to correct myself and point out that
I meant "Latin for beard" which is barbus and not "Latin for bear"
which, I'm well aware, is ursus.

Hmmm, on the scale of typos-to-make-oneself-look-idiotic I rate that
about an 8.

Deryk Barker
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