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Dear tsuwm. I am having even more trouble with my vision. And my recent memory is not
what it ;used to be, to retain spellings from one window to another. I regret that my
shortcomings detract from the enjoyment of the board.
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I regret that my shortcomings detract from the enjoyment of the board.
Don't worry Dr. Bill. I googled "gambinus" and got a site with a link to the Gambinus Company, a beer distributor in San Antonio, TX. Clicking on the link led me to the website for the Gambrinus Company. So I guess the r doesn't make that much difference after all. tsuwm is just bucking for head nit-picker over Juan.
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But neither tsuwm nor WO'N have my capacity to quibble.
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In reply to:
tsuwm is just bucking for head nit-picker over Juan
I have just been reading C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, which was first published in 1945. Bucking is there used to represent a very similar word that could not be printed at that time. For example:
"I couldn't tell that the bucking car was going to break down, could I?"
Who, I wonder is bucking for non-head nit picker?
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Who, I wonder is bucking for non-head nit picker?
When *I bowdlerize that word *I say flicking.
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In West Side Story, it was "...Gee, Officer Krupke, Krup you!"
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Gee, Officer Krupke, Krup you!
Well, yeah, in the *movie.
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Well, on the record, anyway. (Remember LPs?)
Come to think of it, the vinyl disc [not to mention the shellac one]
has no more right to the term "record" than the present CD does. They are all
equally "recordings".
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