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   aRcaDIaNFalls wrote:   
   > The Genesis Project:   
   > Nothing Bad Happened Today (1/1)   
   > by arcadianfalls   
   [...]   
   > Josh came out in his school uniform, shoes and socks in hand,   
   > and sat down next to Hannah, who I'd put back in the high   
   > chair with a rusk.  She smiled, offering it to him.   
      
   I was gonna ask what a rusk was, then decided to just   
   look it up.  ;-)   
      
   ===>   
   rusk   
   NOUN:   
   1. A light, soft-textured sweetened biscuit.   
   2. Sweet raised bread dried and browned in an oven.   
   ETYMOLOGY:   
   Spanishor Portuguese rosca, coil, rusk, perhaps from Vulgar   
   Latin *rotisca, diminutive of Latin rota, wheel. See rotate.   
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   Is this a regional thing?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)