To: Clemenza
What's really odd is, the word 'Bureau' was basically phased-out of common usage as a way to refer to a Chest Of Drawers sometime in the 1700s IIRC, but in one small corner of the country, it still thrived... Etymology (The Study of Bugs or Words, I forget which) seems like it would be a pretty cool thing to study :0)
To: Chad Fairbanks
"Bureau" is still used that way up in Canada, particularly in the east.
88 posted on
04/30/2002 9:06:29 PM PDT by
coydog
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