"... a wry _smurk_ came over his face ..."

[Joel S. Berson]

Are you sure that's not an OCR error for "smurf" or perhaps
"snork"?  I'm told -- I would not know from direct experience -- that
some of them are pretty wry, and small enough as well.

Joel

At 4/4/2011 01:47 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>What can you do? English spelling is essentially brute memorization.
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