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Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Fri Dec 3 00:56:51 UTC 2010


On Dec 2, 2010, at 4:19 PM, i wrote:
>
> ... some number of thousands of people do say "crotchal area/region".  of course, it's jocular -- BECAUSE it's an E base with an L suffix.

and a few jocular hits for "armpittal region/area"...

and a few for "assholar", and somewhat more for "assholic".

people like to play with those L suffixes.

arnold

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