From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject:	Re: vocab question
Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:08:51 +0100

In message <v01540b06ae7036829967@[139.80.4.142]>, Jaimie Nicholson
<jaimie.nicholson@********.otago.ac.nz> writes
>Brian:
>
>>I thought Natch was like "nothing" or "nada".

I understood it as a contraction of "naturally".
>>
>Something like "I met their leader, an elf, natch," or "no chickens in
>there, natch". Could be taken to mean "not surprisingly," but then
there
>are sometimes other uses that don't fit that interpretation.
>

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Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk