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Of all livers in the entrie universe, I am the most chopped. I am so soundly chopped that I flow like a river of chopped liveredness.
Did I, or did I not, write above at the start of the thread:
"Just wanted to note that the MW Word of the Day is cacography, poor spelling and/or handwriting."
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dear Mick,
yes, you are veritably cloaked in the Mantle of chopped-liverness. so what's your point?
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my recollection is that cacography refers to either poor handwriting or to bad spelling
So his memory extends at least to the top of the thread.
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My point, tsuwmuch? No point at all. I'm much too liquefied to have the capacity to form a point.
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Dear WW: to take pity on your paté, FF's description of his wife's writing reminded me of Horace Greeley, whowe cacography was legendary. Allegedly a couple of his underlings put ink on a chicken's feet, and held it over one of Greeley's editorials, then showed it to Greeley and asked what the word was. "Unconstitutional, you damned fool."
I found a dozen sites mentioning his failing, but none worth citing here.
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All the chicken that's fit to feet? 
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When I was in grade 9 a teacher told my complaining mother that I had poor handwriting because my brain worked too quickly for my hands to keep up. Gee I liked that man. I won't tell her I'm a cacographist in case she faints before I can explain. 
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Did I, or did I not
Yes, you did. But I did not start at the top of the thread. I started at the bottom. Doesn't everyone?
Is that easier?
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started at the bottom
And I had to go into threaded mode to figure out to whom this was in response.
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I started at the bottom. Doesn't everyone?
No, because if you start at the bottom, that means you start with what you've just posted, but if you haven't made the post yet, how can you start there? ...said the cricket lady!
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