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From: dkaulf@hpqt0147.sqf.hp.com (Dick Kaulfuss)
Subject: Re: English is a Germanic Language?
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Achim Stenzel (achim@tiger.toppoint.de) wrote:
: >
: > About German, I was talking with a friend in Germany
: > yesterday.  She told me that she'd seen a mutual friend
: > of ours at the "Menze" (spelling?). It was only after a
: Mensa - a university cafeteria.

: BTW, in Edinburgh it is "refectory". I would welcome  
: enlightenment as to the differences between these terms..

  And Glasgow. The refectory is/was the communal eating area in monasteries
  and other religious establishments.  I don't think "mensa" ever made it
  into British English in this context.

  Dick
 
