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Ummmm.....nice summation milum! You should consider law!  Hi Keiva!
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nice summation
I was misquoted!
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At least we can do many things we could not do before, in spite of not being able to prove anything.
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And so it goes...But let us not forget that the protagonist of the novel famous for that Vonnegut quote took his own life by drinking Drano, the breakfast of champions!
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... and probably drank it in the fifth slaughterhouse he could find while strumming on a player piano ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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... In 1830 Joseph Worcester published ... he was accused a few years later of plagiarizing by Webster. Worchester had worked on the 1828 dictionary,
An interesting typo. Happens all the time to this town, and we always wonder why. People have no trouble pronouncing the name of the sauce - howcum they insist of putting in that gratuitous h?
Wofahulicodoc (resident of Worcester, Mass) (not Worchester)
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>(resident of Worcester, Mass) (not Worchester)
...and I suppose it's pronounced wooster.
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Definitely two syllables, similar to Wooster (Ohio?). Or, if you should happen to come from around here, "WOO-stah". (That's "oo" as in "foot".) The sauce is "woo-ster-shear" sauce, from the place in England. It's the ineffable British condensation, which also makes Leicester be pronounced "Lester" and Leominster "Leminster" and, inevitably, turns Cholmondeley into "Chumley". (And reaches its epitome when it renders eleemosynary as "alms," by now a fait accompli.)
But all those are shortenings. Why _add_ a letter/change the phoneme? If it were just the literal mind operating it should have come out wor-ses-ter, not -chester.
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