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Subject: Fwd: Silly part names:Squab
From: XGPH72A@prodigy.com (MR SYD SAPERSTEIN)
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 02:32:35 EDT
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> Date: Tuesday, 03-Oct-95 11:05 PM
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> From: Syd Saperstein           \ PRODIGY:     (XGPH72A)
> To:   mgs@auto.team.net        \ Internet:    (mgs@autox.team.net)
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> Subject: Fwd: Silly part names:Squab
> 
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> > Date: Tuesday, 03-Oct-95 09:57 PM
> > 
> > From: Syd Saperstein           \ PRODIGY:     (XGPH72A)
> > To:   mgs@auto.team.net        \ Internet:    (mgs@auto.team.net)
> > 
> > Subject: Silly part names:Squab
> > 
> > According to Merriam Webster, the word squab is of scandinavian
origin
> > (sqvabb) which refers to anything thick and soft.  Webster's
definition
> #
> > 3a is listed as a couch (it is also listed in Roget's as a synonym
for
> > couch) def. 3b actually says "a cushion for a chair or couch."  Now
> since
> > the word squab has been around for a long tjime (scand. for time I
> guess)
> > before the automobile, and since it has the above definitions, it
is
> clear
> > that the word could have been used in a number of ways to describe
the
> > various thick, soft parts of seating in or out of cars, which would
> allow
> > for both Chip and TATerry's definitions.  If we are gouing to quote
shop
> > manuals as holy writ on the use of the English language, God help
us. So
> > sit on or back on your respective squabs and relax.  Now, for other
> > misconceptions... Was the Holy Roman Empire Holy, Roman or an
Empire?
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