Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd!decwrl!decvax!dartvax!andyb From: andyb@dartvax.UUCP (Andy Behrens) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: "Our Concern is Growing" & book stolen Message-ID: <2419@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 19:57:48 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.2419 Posted: Mon Sep 24 19:57:48 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 03:57:07 EDT References: <517@ames.UUCP>, <156@dcdwest.UUCP> <4702@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 15 >> (You have to hang around German bakeries to know this one) >> >> "I had a stolen (a long pastry item, available with various toppings) >> made of books" >> >> Will Martin >> (one of the South Side Dutch in St. Louis) I've never seen this word spelled any way but "stollen", and I've always always heard it pronounced the same way, with a short "o." Maybe the folks in St. Louis don't speak German :-) Andy Behrens andyb@dartmouth.csnet {astrovax,dalcs,decvax,cornell,linus}!dartvax!andyb