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> David, it's a summer Friday, so I hope you'll excuse this: when
> discussing Iliad I, do you too get snickers when you mention the phrase
> "war booty"?  I can't use that word without half the class collapsing on
> the floor in laughter.

Ok, I'm probably gonna regret this, but it's a colloquialism which hasn't
filtered over to here, and not to the Uk when I grew up or lived there.  So
I'll bite...what's so funny about war booty????

Lisa Maurice

Dr.L.Maurice
Department of Classics,
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan
Israel
52900

tel: +972 3 531 8231
email: lmaurice@bezeqint.net

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