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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email since 1997

Cats in the Box - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card

Monday August 4, 2008
Cats in the Box IncrediMail LetterDenim, the cloth, is so called because it was once produced prominently in the southern French town of Nīmes. Jeans, the trousers, are so called because denim, the cloth, was also once prominently produced in Genoa, Jannes in Old French.
I have before my eyes huge wooden containers, laboriously discharged from a ship called Olifant during a clear and cold Genovese night. On each side, the boxes bear in large dark letters: De Nīmes (from Nīmes). Of course, etymological history differs from this a tad, but seeing the cats in this IncrediMail letter and in that box, I think you will agree we will once wonder why a certain breed of cats is called frachill:
›› The cats have been in the mail — in the email. (IncrediMail)

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