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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: food for thought
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Not so very long ago, 101b-bq@sophia.smith.edu (Anne Nester) said...

>Is the English (American, I think) colloquialism "vittles" a contraction
>of the semi-archaic "victuals"? 

  No.  It's a =mispronunciation= of "victuals", not a contraction.

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