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[Laurence Horn]

I noticed that yesterday's Anu Garg's Word A Day post (the theme this week
is "words that sound dirty but aren't", e.g. nudum pactum, titubation, cock
of the walk) was for "twattle", which I had always thought was "twaddle".
The OED informs me it's pretty much always been both, or either.
Presumably the "twaddle" spelling, although more common, would have been a
bridge too far for the AWAD category in question.

LH

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 10:55 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Some other student _taddled_ on us."
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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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