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  • Re: hire it done --- ( but it is kent, apparently )

    From Hibou@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 9 06:13:22 2024
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    Le 09/07/2024 à 06:08, HenHanna a écrit :
    On 7/8/2024 9:52 PM, Hibou wrote:

    but it is kent, apparently

                 kent == known?

    Aye.

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Hibou on Mon Jul 8 22:08:28 2024
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    On 7/8/2024 9:52 PM, Hibou wrote:
    but it is kent, apparently

    kent == known?

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kent#Verb

    NOT [it is from Kent], used in Kent



    "hire" -- used to be an old-fashioned term for
    a kind of Taxi cab in Japan.

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Hibou on Mon Jul 8 22:59:35 2024
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    On 7/8/2024 10:13 PM, Hibou wrote:
    Le 09/07/2024 à 06:08, HenHanna a écrit :
    On 7/8/2024 9:52 PM, Hibou wrote:

    but it is kent, apparently

                  kent == known?

    Aye.



    kent ------- sounds old-fashioned....


    ( certainly out of my ken )

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