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From: peter@statsci.com (Peter Schumacher)
Subject: Re: Q:mensa -cafeteria? possible etymology
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hidas@dxcern.cern.ch (Pal Hidas) writes:


>In Hungary the university cafeteria also called mensa (menza),       Pal 

This is true is Swiss German as well. 


Peter Schumacher
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Peter Schumacher
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