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Thread #6989 Message #41639
Posted By: AndreasW
14-Oct-98 - 07:20 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Belfast Town (and help req)
Subject: RE: LyrADD/Help request: Belfast Town
Hi Joe,
I wrote it as gelignite, because I know the German name Gelignit,
and now I looked up both gelignite and jellygnite in Hypertext Webster.
Results for gelignite:
a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp
and sodium or potassium nitrate
Results for jellygnite:
No definition found for "jellygnite"
so that seems to be in my favour.
And I think I remember something like it coming from
"gelum" (Latin for jelly) and "ignitium", the ignition,
or burning jelly, but I'm not sure about that.
cu, Andreas