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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: What you get when you get a clue
Date: Sat, 15 May 1993 00:22:03 GMT

Heard on the BBC "My Word" game show last night: "Clue" (also "clew"), meaning "a piece of information that helps you figure something out," comes from the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur: The former found his way out of the Cretan labyrinth by following a string that he had unwound from a CLUE (or ball of string) on the way in.

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