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so ck, do you adjudge that byb was speaking of orgy emeriti?
Interesting fine distinction of terms here -- and a subtle confilict within AHD:
1) AHD, under "mixture', claimes that "blend and amalgam imply that the original components have lost their distinctness" [hence inapposite here]", -- but that "mixture has the widest application".
2) But elsewhere, under "mixed" and "mix (transitive)", AHD implies that the principal meaning is "blended".
I am reminded of the first bawdy comment I ever heard from my father's mouth. Debunking one who oversimplified by asserting what "the average American" wants, my father, "The Average American has one t*t and one b*ll."
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