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Subject: Re: Debarking or Disembarking? Here's Coffee - Discuss.. Posted on: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:16:51 PDT

On 6/27/2007 9:06 PM number6 exclaimed:
> On Jun 26, 2:19 am, Brian K wrote:
>
>> I've seen these two words used interchangeably. I looked up debarking.
>> The only definitions I can find have to do with the removal of bark from
>> a tree. There is a third vaguely diabolical meaning, it is to
>> surgically remove the vocal chords from a dog. But what about the
>> latter? The only definitions I can find for disembark mean 'to leave a
>> ship' or 'to leave a vessel'.
>>
>>
>
> I think there was a spell check that gave dismemberment as the correct
> spelling for disembarkment...
>
>
Ah yes that was a great Saturday Drive-In Movie "I Dismember Mama". =-O

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