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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.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewW

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

  3. 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 'paper-net' is a hackish way of referring to the ...
    Found on

  4. snail mail
    noun any mail that is physically delivered by the postal service; `email is much faster than snail mail`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. Snail mail
    `Snail mail` is a derogatory retronym ` named after the snail with its proverbially 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, versus the virtually instantaneous dispatch and delivery of its electronic equivalent, e-mail.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_mail

  6. Snail-mail
    Snail-mail is slang for post, mail.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

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

  8. 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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9 November 2009

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On 9 November 1989 the Berlin Wall was finally breached by jubilant Berliners , unifying a city that had been divided for over 30 years. The 28-mile (45 km) barrier dividing Germany's capital was built in 1961 to prevent East Berliners fleeing to the West, but as Communism in the Soviet Republic and Eastern Europe began to crumble, pressure mounted on the East German authorities to open the Berlin border. At midnight on 9th November East Germany's Communist rulers gave permission for gates along the Wall to be opened after hundreds of people converged on crossing points. They surged through cheering and shouting and were be met by jubilant West Berliners on the other side. read more

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