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Look up: Snail-Mail

  1. Snail Mail
    The standard system of mail delivery in which letters, documents, and packages are physically transported from one location to another, in contrast to electronic mail [rhyming compound formed from roots snail and mail].
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20035

  2. Snail Mail
    Traditional postal services mail, details ...
    Found on http://www.cryer.co.uk/glossary/s/index.

  3. snail mail
    noun any mail that is physically delivered by the postal service; `email is much faster than snail mail`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  4. snail mail
    (messaging) (Or 'snailmail', 'smail' from 'US Mail' via 'USnail'; 'paper mail'). Bits of dead tree sent via the postal service as opposed to electronic mail. One's postal address is, correspondingly, a 'snail (mail) address'. There have even been parody USnail posters and stamps made. The variant...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/snail+mail

  5. Snail mail
    `Snail mail` or `smail` (from snail + mail) is a dysphemistic retronym—named after the snail with its slow speed—used to refer to letters and missives carried by conventional postal delivery services. The phrase refers to the lag-time between dispatch of a letter and its receipt, versu...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_mail

  6. Snail-Mail
    Snail-mail is slang for post, mail.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  7. Snail-Mail
    Snail-mail is slang for post, mail.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  8. Snailmail
    a pejorative term referring to the conventional (postal) mail system as opposed to email
    Found on http://www.archivemag.co.uk/

  9. Snailmail
    The term used to define the method of a letter being physically delivered to a person using the Post Office or some other letter carrier.
    Found on http://www.pcblues.co.uk/help_glossary.h



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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