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To: Ish who wrote (19282)3/14/1999 2:23:00 PM
From: Gauguin  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Kapok. Oh yah, my old friend kapok. Comes from a tree seed or something.

Wait. Yep. "Malay. A mass of silky fibers that clothe the seeds of the ceiba tree."

Probably endangered or growing in big clump by rusting factories.

I was looking at the J's and K's. They take up just a tiny space in the dictionary. I bet someone has a theory here, why that is.

Maybe it's because the other letters can make those sounds, and whoever introduced them had no business doing it in the first place.

MJ is watching The Cracker Barrel 500.
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