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Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Aug 31 13:02:18 UTC 2012
At 8/31/2012 12:46 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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and other _assordid_ types
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>I guess that people hear many more idiomatic collocations than they
>ever read. But, you'd think that they'd ask themselves WTF _assordid_
>means.
The various types of people one encounters passing through a back alley.
Joel
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>-Wilson
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>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
>to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>-Mark Twain
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