Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site caip.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!caip!OC.TREI From: OC.TREI@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: great typo in "Stainless Steel Rat is Born" (sic) Message-ID: <196@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 09:39:02 EDT Article-I.D.: caip.196 Posted: Thu Oct 24 09:39:02 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 07:49:11 EDT Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 24 From: Peter G. Trei> From: nsc!chuqui@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chuq Von Rospach) > Subject: great typo in "Stainless Steel Rat is Born" > "-- a one-tonne angry boar hog with sharp tushes " > I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be sat upon by that > animal..... You don't suppose they really meant tusks, do you??? No, I really dont think so: (from Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary) TUSH: [ME @i(tusch), from OE @i(tusc); akin to OFris @i(tusk) tooth, OE @i(toth)]: a long pointed tooth; esp: a horse's canine. The 'tush' of which you are probably thinking (buttocks) is a slang word (tuches) in Yiddish, a creole of High German and Hebrew. I dont know if it is borrowed from the German or the Hebrew. (cf. Modern Hebrew slang: (tusik)). Peter Trei oc.trei@cu20b.arpa -------