"bugger" [bUg at r]?!

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> It may be more to the point that the repeated "u" is more attractive in
> print.
>

Yes. That's a good point. Indeed, it's "eye-poetic" to do it that way, in
some vague, poorly-understood, ill-defined sense, I reckon.

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