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Mike Easter wrote:
> Smirnoff wrote:
>
>> Yes, I take your point but as I said, I remember it as a crossword
>> answer and looking up the word in the dictionary.
>
> But science and police work and other investigations have proven the
> faultiness of such recollections.
>
> There's a brand new article about understanding how to 'trip' the false
> 'memory' deja vu sensation.
>
> But I'm sticking with you for a while -- was the dictionary you
> recall an online or deadtree version?

Chambers' 20th Century (deadtree)

TONTINE?

john wrote:
> TONTINE?

I think you'll find that a tontine is a scheme whereby several people invest
a certain amount of money that eventually goes to the last surviving person.
Thanks anyway.