"Julia Altshuler" > wrote in message
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> Ophelia wrote:
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>> what is a tort please?
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> A tort is a grievance.
> A torte is a cake.
> In the sentence "I know them to be one tort, folded," a tort is a typo for
> sort.
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> --Lia
>

I read Melba's "tort" as being short for tortilla