Sean wrote:
> On 10/3/05 10:16 PM, "declan_murphy@hotmail.com"  typed:
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>>j...@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
>>
>>>Apud declan_murphy@hotmail.com (fj.life.in-japan) hoc legimus:
>>>
>>>>I've received a couple of gaiginsama notes over the years, but also
>>>>when back in Iidabashi. At midnight mass in Hakodate a while back it
>>>>wasn't a note but in the aisle for the Eucharist.
>>>
>>>Written on the floor? Was this like the cathedral in Calcutta, which
>>>had special pews for untouchable Catholics?
>>
>>It was a spoken, "let the gaiginsama go ahead of you". It was probably
>>intended for a child behind me or something because I heard it just as
>>I reached the aisle. Its pretty hard to be offended by gaiginsama.
>>
>>Special pews for untouchable Catholics? Strewth.
>>
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> 
> A waitress once referred to me as 外国人様. I wish she'd put a 御 in there.
> 

would that be O or GO?