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pcoles | 12:10 Sat 06th Mar 2010 | Crosswords
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Characteristic sound of carrier, originally (5)

T-A-T

Looks like "TRAIT", which makes "characteristic" presumably the definition, but I don't get the cryptic allusion. Or am I just wrong ?
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Pronounced tray?
12:10 Sat 06th Mar 2010
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Isn't it pronounced "trate"?
12:11 Sat 06th Mar 2010
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Oh I see. In the original French it is pronounced "tray". That must be it. Many thanks.

Of course "originally" it was latin, not French, from trahere...
12:13 Sat 06th Mar 2010
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It's originally a French word and tray is a carrier.
12:14 Sat 06th Mar 2010

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