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<font size=3>At 10/8/2013 11:52 AM, W Brewer wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">WB: I feel (therefore I
am) that ginger is not sl-, i.e. phonaesthetically<br>
slippery, slimy, sleazy, slick, slushy, slutty, or slithery. My
brain<br>
refuses to associate ginger with slithery things.
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Rather than raw ginger, feel of "grated [sliced?] ginger," in
"cane sugar, vinegar, water, citric acid."<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
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