'Killing' for 'suicide'

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Damien Hall
<damien.hall at newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:
> this is a hapax, or rare

One can only hope! When I used "sneaked" in place of "snuck," while
chatting with my 22-year-old niece, she burst into laughter. When *I*
was 22, it was saying "snuck" that was considered to be something that
you did specifically to make people laugh.

Youneverknow.

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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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