On Wed, July 8, 2009 00:33, John Summerfield wrote:
> Agblad Tore wrote:
>> Funny this thing with words. The word stool meaning chair in english,
>> you know
>> the swedish word for chair is 'stol' !
>
> Don't imagine that "stool" means "chair" in modern English. One sits on
> either, but a stool has no back and is used less formally. Perfectly
> consistent with Erik's observation.

Of course, there's also the stool you wouldn't want to sit on.

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