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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Re: Re: excessive quoting
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:20:33 +0100
Seems very likely Andrew - in Central Asia - on the route from India and
China into Europe and Russia - the equivalent of a pub (except for the
nature of what is imbibed!) is called a chaikhana, tea house.

Piers 

-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andrew Fildes
Sent: 07 September 2004 08:57
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OT Re: Re: excessive quoting

--snip

I always understood that 'chai' migrated into Russian from the caravans of
black tea coming over the hills from Assam or thereabouts. 

--snip


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