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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi

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To: Rambi who wrote (45938)1/29/2000 2:19:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
"Gallus," as I would have thought anyone in Texas, the death penalty capital of the world, would have known is a form of the word "gallows" which is a jocular word for "suspender." From OE gealga (cross) through ME galwes (plural of cross).
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