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To: epicure who wrote (4602)	4/25/2004 9:32:51 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51713

That would be really fun. I have learned a lot of words just slightly wrong by gleaning the meaning from the context. I just had one the other day. I was asked to do an arrangement of all the Armed Forces theme songs for an elementary school recital and I was talking to my choir teacher about it, singing the lyrics, and I sang the Army one using the word Caissons instead of Army and Michael said, what's a caisson? I knew it was a wagon of some sort, but for some reason I had it in my head it was piled with dead bodies. There were a couple of students in his office goofing around, and one said she thought caissons were little fat German soldiers, which was really very funny. We looked it up and I now know it is a flat wagon used to carry ammunition. I think I will remember it because we TALKED about it. When I told Dan, he was surprised I didn't know it, but he reads all those war books, so of course he knows it. I bet he doesn't know Boadicia. Or borborygmus.