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Subject:	Re: The dear departed
From:	Sophie Valtat <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 5 Jan 2000 00:07:44 +0100
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A (At) 14:00 4/01/0, Art Weil ecrivait (wrote):
>Dear Sophie;-
>    Never apologize for poor English. We Americans don't speak it all
>that damn well either. But, like Mary Poppins, we never apologize---never
>explain!
>    Just as a frinstance: what do you suppose "dengo beano" means?
>    One of my students used it this way: Dengo beano tess today is they,
>Mr. Weio?
>        Art

Only idea which comes about Dengo is a Disney dog which was called Dingo
(you must pronounce "in"   as in pain, vin..., bain) when I was a child !
So I'm afraid to be far from your imaginative student !

Sophie

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