[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.
-- 
Adele de Maisieres
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Habeo metrum - musicamque,
hominem meam. Expectat alium quid?
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