From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!rhm Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: those colorful Italians Article-I.D.: alice.926 Posted: Fri Sep 17 20:37:42 1982 Received: Wed Sep 22 09:09:40 1982 References: ihuxv.326 If you think "ficus" is strange, Lew., you ought to look up the etymology of "porcelain" in a really good dictionary.