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This will be of special interest to Max and tsuwm. A friend E-mailed me the link, and I love the entry I've posted here. There's a cook-out specialty in a certain region of upstate NY; it's called spiedie and I'd always wondered where the name came from: http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/spiedie/
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Wow, this is way cool! But--is your cookout pronounced speedo, spy-doh, or something else?
I read about fairy rings; didn't someone bring that up here, once? The 1872 listing bears out what my memory is telling me was said here.
New word to me, but makes sense: Bangalored. Sigh.
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Really cool site. Looking up liverpaste nel diccionario.
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Most folks pronounce it spee-deez. Spelling is pretty erratic, though. Speidie and speedie are popular variants.
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I thought a spiedie was one of those scant bathing suits which men of ample girth ought never wear in public.
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nope, Fr Steve, those are speedo's!
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Fr Steve, those are speedo's!
Call 'em what you like. You're never gonna catch me dressed in a pair of the things. God invented baggy trunks for people with my physique and I thank Him for it.
PS: Why do we call one pair of trunks "a pair" when there is only one of it?
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You're never gonna catch me dressed in a pair of the things.
Yeahbut®, would you eat some?
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Looking up liverpaste nel diccionario.
So what's Italian for chopped liver? And did I chop yours, Nuncle?
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<i>So what's Italian for chopped liver? And did I chop yours, Nuncle?</i>
A good question. I thought you had, but I've decided you didn't. (I'd posted the URL for DTWW elsewhere on another wordish site.) Just a liver attack on my part. Urp.
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