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   From: me@privacy.net   
      
   mimus  wrote in   
   news:lel7tprk4w25.vlic2h7qc21d.dlg@40tude.net:   
      
   > On 25 May 2006 07:46:45 GMT, Adrian Tupper wrote:   
   >   
   >> mimus  wrote in news:rw760wm3p8z3   
   $.run4ws93i48o   
   >> $.dlg@40tude.net:   
   >>   
   >>> On Wed, 24 May 2006 19:39:35 +0100, The Reid wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Following up to mimus   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>Considering it's coffee, and the name in question, what about   
   >> "Gringo"?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Why "gringo"? Coffee came from the arabs, "unbeliever"?   
   >>>   
   >>> Don't they call all Euroes "Franks"?   
   >>   
   >> Are we talking about people or currency here?   
   >   
   > Didn't know "Franks" were still around, either way.   
      
   They're not.  But having said that, I have some in my draw here.   
      
   > The people Franks started out bad (see Gregory of Tours) and then   
   turned   
   > into the French . . . .   
      
   The Franks were a Germanic tribe who created modern France.  Dunno when   
   they started speaking French rather than German though.  Probably when   
   they weren't bad any more...   
      
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