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tomatoes -a MOTTOES md wannabee
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Wordplay and fun
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LANDUCATE - to chew up lands in the name of restoring a state of eco-stasis. Example: the re-introduction of warthogs to Yellowstone National Park because they were snorting around during the Pleistocene.
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English as a global language
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Miscellany
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“Anglo-Foreign Words” Walter Penney of Greenbelt, Md., offered this poser in the August 1969 issue of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. Below are five groups of English words. Each group appears also in a foreign language. What are
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Q&A about words
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This is an interesting question. My thoughts are as follows: 'Illumine' is used in a literary metaphorical sense, more in the way of 'to enlighten', referring to the light of understanding. 'To illuminate' is better used in the material sense of a l
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Wordplay and fun
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hilarious!
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Q&A about words
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your thinking on the use of the term 'harry' may be a bit watered down from the way it was used at the time of the Norman Conquest! (think looting, sacking, pillaging, etc.)
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