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hmmmm well, down here 'a' and 'i's are always getting mixed up in the speech between Kiwi's and Aussies....I just didn't notice it. I say 'pin' and Aussies think I'm saying 'pen' 
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A. does not fancy any of them. Was inclined to go with E but what use is defining the first stone in a pile? Weeding out more, is not "young egg" another pleonasm? Wood stoves do not need seals and a well-known burglar would not be successful long enough to become an eponym. A peat moor channel is useful for - navigation? Are there any urban Mongolian tribefolk? Wincing and going with C.  A) if you don't have a first stone you're not going to have a pile. 2) A young egg is the egg in a state of development prior to the formation of the shell. Anyone who has killed and gutted a chicken is familiar with the eggs in this state. The assembly line looks a little like a brussels sprout bush. Þ) If there isn't a seal around the edge of the door you're not going to be able to control the air coming into the stove and it will burn too hot and too quickly. On our stove the seal is a braided cord and it is attached to the edge of the door with some goop.
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and iv) the story of Johnny Yegg
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Where I grew up a "yegg" was a safecracker. Plain and simple.
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A. does not fancy any of them. Was inclined to go with E but what use is defining the first stone in a pile? Weeding out more, is not "young egg" another pleonasm? Wood stoves do not need seals and a well-known burglar would not be successful long enough to become an eponym. A peat moor channel is useful for - navigation? Are there any urban Mongolian tribefolk? Wincing and going with C. A) if you don't have a first stone you're not going to have a pile. 2) A young egg is the egg in a state of development prior to the formation of the shell. Anyone who has killed and gutted a chicken is familiar with the eggs in this state. The assembly line looks a little like a brussels sprout bush. Þ) If there isn't a seal around the edge of the door you're not going to be able to control the air coming into the stove and it will burn too hot and too quickly. On our stove the seal is a braided cord and it is attached to the edge of the door with some goop. Also you get 'old eggs'. When collecting fresh eggs from chicken nest, we had to date them, so we knew which were the young ones and which were older. The older ones sometimes went 'bad' before we used them.
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Where I grew up a "yegg" was a safecracker. Plain and simple. .....now you have me singing Cole Porter's: It's De-lovely......but like Robbie Williams version 
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I never said a yegg wasn't a safe-cracker, just that that is a later slang definition of the original meaning of yegg.
Also tsuwm if you read the definition it does say that yegg may have come from the surname of an itinerant burglar but it unknown whether the word or the burglar came first.
----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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on a related note, did the external link to the NYT article on Johnny Yegg work for y'all? I had some problems with it my own self, although it did work once. (PDF file)
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on a related note, did the external link to the NYT article on Johnny Yegg work for y'all? I had some problems with it my own self, although it did work once. (PDF file) works fine for me!
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Yes it did, but there is an interestinger article there called "My last play". It could be posturing, or it could be tragic. Can't imagine giving away all your books like that. I wonder how he'll feel in the end when they are all gone - disembowelled or unburdened?
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