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I PASSED!!!!!!!!! I'm not a graduate of high school but I did ace the test, I'm not sure if I would have before I spent half my life on AWAD though. As for gerrymandering, as a regular subscriber to Private Eye, this is a familiar word to me,there was a well publicised incident in London a few years ago which was exposed in the Eye's 'Rotten Boroughs' section. I never knew the etymology though, very interesting.
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Not a very good picture, but here is a URL with picture from which you can get an idea of how voting district lines were re-drawn suggesting to political cartoonist a salamander-like outline: You have to scroll down at least a third of the way. http://imaginatorium.org/books/maps.htm
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dodyskin - Given your day of arrival here at AWAD, that makes you the most orthographical almost-one-year-old I've ever had the pleasure of *seeing. 
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And you, Dr. Bill, keep looking things up, reporting and expanding our knowledge.Egad, Tweedlitis is infectious! 
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Dear fishonabike: as an extreme of idiocy, I remind myself of Charlemagne trying in his old
age to learn Latin. I despair of achieving literacy commensurate with my ambition.
How I wish I could read as much as fast as the rest of you can. But it's fun trying
Thank you for your kind words. Bill.
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How I wish I could read as much as fast as the rest of you canNot me, Bill - I like cycling 'cos you can take your own time and take in the scenery. But it's fun tryingRespect!
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Had them read to me and got all but seven - and six were on new blood stuff or geometry that I have forgotten most of. The seventh was sanguine....that was a surprise. The opposite of what Ithought.
Thanks for the list.
Nice work!
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wrought (rôt) v. A past tense and a past participle of work.§ adj. 1. Put together; created: a carefully wrought plan. 2. Shaped by hammering with tools. Used chiefly of metals or metalwork. 3. Made delicately or elaborately. [Middle English wroght < Old English geworht, past participle of wyrcan, to work; see werg- in App.]
I always thought "wrought" meant shaped by twisting, and was the past tense of "wring," analogous to "brought/bring."
Whom are we to believe, me or some strange dictionary?
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>Whom are we to believe, me or some strange dictionary?
<fill-in-the-blank stare>
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Whom are we to believe, me or some strange dictionary?
You both *make sense given the common US'n use of "wrought iron"... or is this rota irony? [ouch]
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