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Subject: Excelsior and Dictionaries
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Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 09:04:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 29 09:04:00 1984
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From:  Tom Perrine <tom@LOGICON.ARPA>

Where are you people buying your dictionaries these days?  My
"Webster's New World Dictionary" has the defninitiona and derivation of
excelsior:

"excelsior () adj, interj [see EXCEL] always upward --- n.  long thin
wood shavings use for packing."

Not bad for $2.50. Who needs the Oxford-on-a-chip?

Tom Perrine
"engineeers kant spel gud."
{tom@LOGICON.ARPA}