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To: snickeroon
a gaucho
130 posted on 10/23/2002 11:29:23 PM PDT by MGMorris
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To: MGMorris
Okay. How's this for strange. Perfect: a gaucho with one letter left over I. Or, "A gaucho, I." Yup, that's stretching it.... but look at yet another coincidence....given the constant "hispanic" connection:




gau·cho   Pronunciation Key  (gouch)
n. pl. gau·chos
1. A cowboy of the South American pampas.
2. gauchos Calf-length pants with flared legs.



[American Spanish, probably from Quechua wáhcha, poor person, orphan, vagabond.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

gaucho
\Gau"cho\ (gou"ch[-o]), n., pl. Gauchos (-ch[-o]z) [Sp.] One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle
134 posted on 10/23/2002 11:41:44 PM PDT by snickeroon
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