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Hi, Denis!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

 AH>  Occasionally we can omit letters or entire words
 AH>  in English without changing the meaning.  But "also"
 AH>  seems to be a contraction of "all so", i.e. the
 AH>  translation of a word from Old English.  That's as
 AH>  brief as it gets.  :-Q

 DM>  :-Q - what is from your mooth?


          I use ":-Q" to indicate a "tongue-in-cheek" comment... i.e an ironic
or facetious remark not to be taken too seriously.  I have also seen ":-P" and
other variations used where the author is limited to a standard keyboard.  :-)



 AH>  It's often said there are no exact synonyms in English...
 AH>  and while the "rule" may have "exceptions", a pair like
 AH>  this is all I can come up with.

 DM>  :-( I do not know, Ardith.


          Not to worry.  As we say in English... "Rome wasn't built in a day".
UK/US pairs are mentioned from time to time, however, in this echo.  :-)



 AH>  Since you are interested in cooking, however... the
 AH>  larger version, equipped with three or four legs &
 AH>  used to drain bulky food items like cooked spaghetti
 AH>  or fresh lettuce leaves, is known around here as a
 AH>  "colander".  :-)

 DM>  Android Collaider? ;-)


          I reckon you may be onto something, but I don't understand what you
mean by "Collaider".  Are you thinking of "collide" [v.] as in "come together
violently by force"?   I know the vowel sounds in Russian are a bit different
from what I'm used to, which is how I read your spelling of "mouth"....  :-))




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