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[Joel S. Berson]

Or as my then college-frashman brother once said, for elbow-length gloves,
"gloves of the length of the knee of the arm".

At 6/21/2005 04:27 PM, you wrote:
>speak French that you do not want to  hear. Once I quaked in
>linguistic horror as I entered a French pharmacy to buy the athlete's
>foot medicine I so sorely needed. Would it be medicine for the "foot
>of the athlete" (the English model), or the "mushrooms of the foot"
>(the German model). I could say both in French, but which to say?
>What a dilemma!
>
>dInIs