[Dixonary] Re: Round 1657 "ras" results

[Tim Lodge]

Judy

I'm sorry I messed up your D0!

Interestingly, when I looked up RAS after I'd voted, I found the def

headland; Abyssinian prince.

[Source:
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d00
10916.html]

Of course, I then remembered the second one from Evelyn Waugh's
wonderful description of his visit to Ethiopia (Abyssinia then, I
suppose) for the Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in about 1937.
Haile Selassie was Ras Tafari before he became Emperor, hence
Rastafarianism.

-- Tim L





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[Judy Madnick]

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Tim Lodge" <iel7j001 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com>

<< I'm sorry I messed up your D0!

That's okay . . . really.

<< Interestingly, when I looked up RAS after I'd voted, I found the def

<< headland; Abyssinian prince.

Yes, I found that out the hard way . . . when Chuck Emery proposed his definition. Well, so far no one has complained, so . . . <G>.

Judy


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