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Sat Nov 5 06:18:48 PDT 2011


No dia 2011/11/05, às 02:16, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com>  
escreveu:

> Silver is a semi-precious metal.  It alliterates with Silk, and in  
> the same way as the other epithet ‘Silent Silk’.
>
> This works, and it’s clearly what Wolfe had in mind in this    passa 
> ge.

So when your parents called you Gerry, it can't possibly have been  
because they liked the sound AND the meaning AND it was the name of a  
relative. Surely ONE of those reasons suffices so it's clearly the one  
they had in mind. 


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