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Subject:	Martha = Patsy?
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Date:	Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:24:34 -0400
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Here's a question that will really get the list out of its summer
doldrums.  Martha Washington and Martha Jefferson were both known as
"Patsy."  How did the Colonials derive "Patsy" as a nickname for Martha?
There seems to be no relation in the sounds, or anything.

HW

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