[Ads-l] "Bugger"

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> When we meant "booger," we pronounced it like book.


We also have both meanings, but there's absolutely no difference in
pronunciation. The sexual reading that standard _bugger_ can have is also
absolutely absent.


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-Wilson
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