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Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: SKOSH?
From: jhenders@zianet.com (Jim Henderson)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 09:48:55 -0600
RE:

>> Please refrain from using the politically incorrect word >skosh<.  This word
>> is an ethnic slur that is derived from the frugal nature of the Scottish
>> people......I think. A >skosh< amount of something, as in.... a tiny
>> measurement.... say,... "in reducing your SWR a skosh" calls to mind a
>> trivial amount not worth dealing with. Nevertheless, amateurs of Scotch
>> ancestry might be offended.
>
>Offended?  OFFENDED??? We're Scots, or Scottish.  Scotch is what we
>drink, ya wee lid! 
>
>73,
>Ken K4XL
>

        D'ya laddies n' ken the difference? Hoots, man, this reflector aft
go gang agley...

Jamie Leslie Henderson, KF7E
ex: P1PER,  and op at WH1SKY/SC0TS
 



Jim Henderson

jhenders@zianet.com
jhenders@tdrss.wsc.nasa.gov
kf7e@k5di.nm.usa.noam


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