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To: Lizard_King
La Mancha means "the sleeve" does it not?
42 posted on 11/28/2002 2:39:34 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: sheik yerbouty
La Mancha means "the sleeve" does it not?

No. "Manga" means sleeve. "Mancha" means stain but is also a region of Spain. (See map below)

The title lent itself to irony with the double meaning........a sort of "Don Quixote of Dogpatch".


Comunidad de Castilla-La Mancha

64 posted on 11/29/2002 12:09:33 PM PST by Polybius
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To: sheik yerbouty
Sorry Sheik, "the sleeve" would be La Manga
79 posted on 12/01/2002 10:41:38 PM PST by Lizard_King
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