Strange Journeys

[Jeffrey Reid]

On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> Jeffrey Reid writes:
> > On Mon, 1 Jul 1996 LBernier at tribune.com wrote:
> > >      What is the deal with this "Trainspotting" thing?  I saw a book with
>
> > trainspotting is the uniquely British hobby where you get a little black
> > book and travel around the country trying to see as many different trains
> > as possible (usually kept track of by number) and writing them down in
> > your book.
>
> Close but no cigar I'm afraid.
>
I hope you aren't trying to tell me that the word trainspotting originates
from Welsh's book title...

Jeff

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Jeffrey G Reid       			jgreid at u.washington.edu
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