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(About why we don't write wonderfull, etc.)
An accident—no pun intended—of linguistic history. Probably no greater reason than that's where it stuck when the wheel stopped turning. (If it's any consolation, the distinction is there in Old English: wundorful vs full.)
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>I thought 'Wild and Avalanche' was the name of one team.
yes indeed:
Switching to Sport, tonight at the Vomitorium, the Wild and Avalanche buried The Good and The Bad by the score of 11 to 1; it was Ugly. In other results, Rock, Paper, Scissors trimmed Beards and Philosophers by a whisker, 43 to 42; and Cloak and Dagger polished off Stones and Bones, 17-nil; forensics at 11.
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say what? 
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VomitoriumInterestingly enough, a vomitorium (< vomitorius 'emetic' link) was not a place Romans went to purge after binging, but the entrances to the theaters or amphitheaters, which led to the places where the people sat, so-called because they appeared to disgorge people eager to watch the games. Not sure what they are called today, but they exist in large modern stadia.
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(sports Я us) Awwright, dag nab it, did you have to tell the whole world my one fault?   How the heck do I know what or even how team names are decided? 'Sides, I also thought there was a good possibility that it wasn't even a real team: just some example of grammar you wanted to use. jill--not a sports fan--wednesday
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(sports Я us) Awwright, dag nab it, did you have to tell the whole world my one fault? How the heck do I know what or even how team names are decided? 'Sides, I also thought there was a good possibility that it wasn't even a real team: just some example of grammar you wanted to use. jill--not a sports fan--wednesday That's nothing - I have no idea even what sport they are ranting about! 
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stifle, Pook. it's all just a joke -- no actual Sporting Events were involved. except for the aforementioned Wild and Avalanche, which are U.S. ice-hockey teams. the Colorado Avalanche and the Minnesota Wild. link - ron o.
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