[Sca-cooks] remove vs course

Adele de Maisieres ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Tue Jun 6 13:56:41 PDT 2006


otsisto wrote:

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>>I don't hear "Troll" at all, well, maybe once a year (and we have an
>>awful lot of events - nearly every weekend throughout the year there
>>is something not too far away). We call it "Gate".
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>Years ago I found that "porter" was a close historical description of the
>person in charge of the gate. This title derives from portcullis.
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Thank you; that is blindingly obvious and yet it hadn't dawned on me at 
all.  I shall start using that one.


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Adele de Maisieres

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