for the record, "émail" is french for "enamel" - and gets generally used for paint of all kinds, whether enamel or spray - theres a verb form too, so itll show up in that context as well.
-joel
>Scott Davis asked:
>"Any foreign word crumudgens know the origins of "EMAIL" during the
>typewriter age???"
>
>I have some handwritten bike build orders from Raymond Valance (a French
>builder) that start with a line like this:
>
>1 cadre tout Vitus email 11.250
>
>Which I guess to mean 1 frame with Vitus tubes (price)
>
>So I think EMAIL means tubes, tubing, tubeset, something like that.
>
>Paul Lee
>Huntington, NY
>
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i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
after she got that bicycle...