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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What's ST mean?
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Date: 10 Oct 89 02:42:47 GMT
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In article <4611@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
|In article <1111@nigel.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) writes:
||As for 'amiga', I believe it is Spanish for 'friend' and more specifically
||it is a 'female friend'.  'Amigo' is a 'male friend'.
|
|    Well, yes, you're right about the spanish... but I think in this case the
|word 'amiga' is probably italian, since Amiga was an italian company (I think).
|I'm pretty sure the word exists in both languages,since they're fairly similar
     ^^^^^^^^^^^
|to each other.

Nope, dude. Italian has "Amico" and "Amica", with the "c", not the "g".
Next time, check it out before being "pretty sure" :-)  I've never heard of an
"Amiga" Italian company. 

-- Marco Papa (Italian) 'Doc'
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