Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!idis!pitt!hoffman From: hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: defenestration Message-ID: <534@pitt.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 13:39:17 EST Article-I.D.: pitt.534 Posted: Mon Mar 19 13:39:17 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 08:27:12 EST Lines: 14 dartvax!johnc writes: One word that I learned in french class back in eighth grade was 'defenestrate'. It means 'to throw out a window'. I'm not sure why I learned it in french, though. Defenestrate is derived from the french word ^ for "window", which is fenetre. Au reservoir, :-) ---Bob.