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To: Level Head who wrote (1453)	5/20/1999 8:51:00 AM
From: Daniel Chisholm	Respond to of 7056

OT, Re: pumpernickel My wife's an etymologist of sorts, and she does speak German. It's really interesting (for me anyway) to get the inside scoop on the origins and evolutions of various words in English from her. Though sometime when it gets too pedantic (even for me -- see below!) and really bugs me, I figure she must actually be an ento.... (sorry! pun unworthy of completion!) I told her about the "pumpernickel == Devil's gas", and she didn't buy it. She looked it up in the Oxford English Dictionary, and the only thing she got was something from 1630 or so having to do with coarseness. She said that if your version was correct, it might predate that reference. Do you have anything else on this that might help fill her in? Yours in pedanticism, - Daniel