Re: Occupation puzzle

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:29:59 +0100, Richard van Schaik wrote:

Charani wrote:

It can mean peat in English as well but turf also can mean grass that
is grown then cut and lifted with its roots inc earth to be used for
making a lawn. That kind of turf is unusally transported rolled up.
^^^^^^^^

Should read "usually"!

Slightly different in dutch, there it only means peat and the cut and
lifted grass is called differently. But if translated to english back
again we have a full circle to chase each other.

Yes, it can be fun translating back and forth :))

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