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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: food for thought
In-Reply-To: 101b-bq@sophia.smith.edu's message of 29 Mar 1995 21:29:06 GMT
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In article <3lcjf2$8r1@sylvia.smith.edu> 101b-bq@sophia.smith.edu (Anne Nester)
writes:

>Is the English (American, I think) colloquialism "vittles" a contraction of
>the semi-archaic "victuals"?  My dictionary doesn't have "vittles".

Not a contraction, but a "sound spelling"--the orthographic <c> in "victual" is
silent.
-- 
Rich Alderson		[Tolkien quote temporarily removed in favour of
alderson@netcom.com	 proselytizing comment below --rma]

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