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Re: Owner's Handbook

To: Gene <geneglenn@qwest.net>
Subject: Re: Owner's Handbook
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:30:31 -0700
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
References: <000001c48a25$0d659280$d4dde13f@gene>
> [a "smidgen" is a small unit of 
> measurement used south of the Mason-Dixon line]
It is also akin to "Bit", "Little bit", and "piece".

I was riding in the back of a taxi with a Russian girl in St. Petersburg
about four years ago.  She was very fluent in English.  We were looking
for the local go-kart track.  I asked her to instruct the driver to go a
"piece" further up the road.  She looked at me and asked me how far a
piece was.  I explained it is a term that means a little distance.  She
replied "You mean like little bit".  I said exactly.  She broke up
laughing.  she had not concept of what little bit means.
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