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• Nina Tkachuk Dimas     From: announce@list.stnicholasdc.org
... Apostrophe on the word fast. ... [Non-text portions of this
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>Date: April 4, 2013, 8:30:24 AM EDT       >To: <announce@...>
>Subject: Fast       Apostrophe on the word fast.        >Fastis
a Germanic word. Primarily it means abstaining from food;
secondarily it means eating sparingly or abstaining from some
foods. It comes into the Slavic languages as post. The Greek
word is nesteía and it means the same thing: not eating, and,
secondarily, not eating some foods.        >Everyone knows the
basic meaning of the word fast. The doctor tells you he wants
you to come in for a blood test fasting, you know he means that
you should eat nothing when you get up on the morning and that
you will have nothing to eat until after the test. Fasting is
not eating. And