Date:    Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:09:18 -0500
<br>From:    Mark Mandel <Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM>
<br>Subject: "email"
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<br>A friend recently emailed me more or less as follows (text unavailable for cut-and-paste):
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<br>Last night, quite late, I was reading the French version of _Scientific American_ [she was sending from Paris], and I
<br>couldn't figure out why they were saying that ancient sharks sent different kinds of email with their teeth. This morning it
<br>hit me: e'mail [acute accent on the e] is French for 'enamel'!
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<br>-- Mark
<br>       Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com
<br>    Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 796-0267
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