W ärter des Jahres

Thu Dec 11 18:56:10 UTC 2008

Ah I should have know ADS-L can't deal with utf-8 non-ascii.

For Ã read O-umlaut.

Chris

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:51:21 -0500, Chris Waigl <chris at LASCRIBE.NET> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:06:15 -0500, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> wrote:
>>
>> At 12/11/2008 10:59 AM, Chris Waigl wrote:
>>>In the third
>>>place, we get Wachteleierkoalition (quail-egg coalition).
>>
>> Now you've got me curious.  What's the background for this
>> agglomeration?  (No hits on Google, for the English; thousands for
>> the German.)
>
> OK, this is going to be slightly complicated. Bear with me, or hit N.
> snip

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