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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 5:18 PM E Cohen <<a href="mailto:eac@inbox.com">eac@inbox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 25-May-20 17:00, Jean-Joseph Cote wrote:<br>
> It's not a very good silly joke definition if the joke is too obscure <br>
> for anyone to get it, in this case, that the Lord created the world in <br>
> 'aste.<br>
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Oooooh!<br>
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But I pronounce the word with an /ae/. Like "nastyism".<br>
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> Jean-Joseph<br>
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> On 5/25/2020 9:38 AM, Ziv Stern wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> asteism, n. a belief popular in the vicinity of Bow Church (London) <br>
>> that the world was created in five days.<br>
>><br>
>> Jean-Joseph: 1 + 1 = 2<br>
>><br>
>> One point. Because why should God get a shorter weekend than I do? <br>
>> (I'm sure the Bow Church part is a clever joke which I don't get.) <br>
>> (I'll give this my definition-most-likely-to-be-by-Elliott award, as <br>
>> well.)<br>
>><br>
>> Five days, huh? Shaved one off the previous record of six? I like the <br>
>> idea of a religious belief that's *that* local, why there? Is ``five <br>
>> days'' Cockney rhyming slang for something like ``a Great Blaze'', <br>
>> i.e., the Big Bang? Anyhow, one point for amusement value.<br>
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>> That'd make the believers almost exclusively Cockney in the old and <br>
>> truer sense of being born within earshot of the bells of Bow Church <br>
>> (these days it tends to be a label given to any Londoner). I don't <br>
>> see Cockney folks buying into that really. Also, Rule 2.<br>
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> J-J Cote<br>
> <a href="mailto:jjcote@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">jjcote@alum.mit.edu</a><br>
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