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Jerkwater

Something Rhymes with Purple

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The Vocabulary of the Railways

As a child, going from london all the way to zurich on a train was pretty exciting. We clambered out of the train and gazed up at the skies in order to see sputnik flying over overhead. So i think that would be about 19 50. Adamdam, this is from memory. That is special. Wel, shall we talk about the vocabulary? Well, of the railways or because that has got an amazing history. Where does the word train come from? What's its origin? well, has led quite a complicated life, really,. Because it's taken in tractors and cloaks and grape vines and royal processions along the way.

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