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From: "Tony Slocombe" <>
Subject: Re: [CON] West Briton, Sept 29, 1837 (Kayle)
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:09:41 -0000
References: <BAY4-DAV39Kheqzlxu70006352b@hotmail.com>


Greetings all,

Grandad's 1900 edition of Nuttall's Standard Dictionary says:-

"Kayle, a nine-pin; a kettle-pin; a kind of play in Scotland."

Sounds like skittles to me.

Regards

Tony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julia Mosman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 1:18 AM
Subject: [CON] West Briton, Sept 29, 1837


> The 21st child of a lady announced! Also, what is “Kayle”? (a game of
some sort, but what??)
>
> After a series of family matters, am back to transcribing again. Will try
to post regularly from now on! Hope you enjoy. Julia and Rita

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