Heard on Animal Planet: "Polar bears are amazingly _stealthful_."

[Tom Zurinskas]

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>"Polar bears are amazingly _stealthful_." =20
>The speaker was just being poetic.

Yes.  Poety is helpful for a bear that is stealthful.
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On underlining before and after a word=3B  Is that the convention for a quo=
te within a quote?  Just here or elsewhere to?


Tom Zurinskas=2C first Ct 20 yrs=2C then Tn 3=2C NJ 33=2C Fl 9.
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> Date: Wed=2C 14 Sep 2011 10:33:51 -0400
> From: Berson at ATT.NET
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> The speaker was just being poetic. And "Obs. [Obscure?] rare." See OED.
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> Joel
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> At 9/14/2011 12:33 AM=2C Ben Zimmer wrote:
> >On Tue=2C Sep 13=2C 2011 at 9:56 PM=2C Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wr=
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> > > Local/regional dialect in place of _stealthy_=2C like BE _boresome_
> > > instead of _boring_? Or just a slip of the tongue? Youneverknow.
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> >Maybe we can blame the peddlers of the silly _healthy_ vs. _healthful_
> >distinction.
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> >--bgz
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