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>HrmWell, it's always hard to write out a sound, especially that of clearing one's throat unobtrusively. I'm glad you could hear it, ![](/board/images/icons/smile.gif) so I'm thinking it was kinda close. Funny though, that thing about sounds. They don't always translate the same in different languages. Like dog barking...in French readers they write Woof-woof, but in English readers they write bow-wow) Ooops, does everybody call those learning-to-read books in kindergarten and Grade 1 "readers"?
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Grade 1 "readers"?
Primers and readers? I used a McGuffey's Reader in 3rd grade. A bit retro, even then.
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I used a McGuffey's Reader Ooh, you must be really old! <EG>
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Ooh, you must be really old! It was a reprint, but yes, thanks for asking ... MR made me think I was learning English as a foreign language. But the moral uplift, oh my! ![](/board/images/icons/wink.gif)
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Dick, Jane and Spot, for me, one. ![](/board/images/icons/smile.gif)
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Indulging in a little gadzookery, are we, jheem?
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Indulging in a little gadzookery?Fiath, yes, AnnaStrophic, but just to give you a flavor of language control by committee. I believe I used it correctly: as in "I hope you won't let the boys at the Académie know about my mistake." Come on! I use "yup" and "ain't", too, for false folksiism. ![](/board/images/icons/wink.gif)
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![](/board/images/icons/laugh.gif) Shoot, Jim-Bob, I was making what I considered to be a felicitous reference to today's W.A.D. (pardon my French).
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Sorry about that. I hadn't seen the WAD yet. Shucks, I'm just plumb ashamed. Mea culpa.
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