dave @ stejonda wrote:
In message , Gary Woods
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"dave @ stejonda" wrote:

why on earth was I thinking in fathoms???


Full fathom five my bamboo grows...


I keep meaning to read more Sylvia Plath so that was an interesting
diversion - thank-you - though I doubt bamboo would grow in sea-water.

Sylvia Plath? Surely "Full fathom five" is from William Shakespeare's
The Tempest (Ariel's Song) http://www.potw.org/archive/potw190.html

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Howard Neil