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[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 75841

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "malinitosetti" <malinit at e...> 
wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Geoff:
> > 
> > My ancient battered old "Concise Oxford French Dictionary" 
> > gives "vol" as flight and as an alternative to "aile" for 
wing.....
> > 
> > Geoff
> 
> Sorry to contradict you Geoff, but believe me, French is my mother 
> tongue (I live in a French speaking country!) and vol does in no 
way 
> mean wing...

Ce n'est pas moi, mon ami! It's the Oxford Dictionary in which any 
self-respecting Brit places enormous faith - after all Tolkien worked 
for the firm after the First World War1. Ah, you just can't get the 
staff.....