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From: andyb@dartvax.UUCP (Andy Behrens)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: "Our Concern is Growing" & book stolen
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 19:57:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 19:57:48 1984
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>>  (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
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