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From: kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha)
Subject: Re: food for thought
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In article <3lcjf2$8r1@sylvia.smith.edu>,
   101b-bq@sophia.smith.edu (Anne Nester) wrote:
>
>Is the English (American, I think) colloquialism "vittles" a
>contraction of the semi-archaic "victuals"?  My dictionary doesn't have
>"vittles".
>
>Thanks 

My Collins describes "vittle" tersely as
n.,vb. an obsolete or dialect spelling of victual.

Paul JK
