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Smithsonian for me too, but I already had a husband (first and probably last). 
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Smithsonian article.
I and my late husband were the parents of six children, with a gap of 8 yrs between fourth and fifth. I used to tell people the older ones were by his first wife, which was true, but usually got me odd looks or "but that one looks like you"!
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A few years ago my co-worker stumbled upon AWAD (maybe through dictionary.com?) and we started using the daily word around the office. I don't work there anymore but we still throw the words into e-mails sometimes.
At some point I googled AWAD and found this site.
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A reference in some periodical (can't remember, could have been New Scientist) led me to the AWAD e-mails, and from there quickly to AWADtalk.
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It was brought to my attention that somebody's posting in a thread here had mentioned me. Let's see, that was back in January.
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hope that preceding didn't defame you.
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I've known about it from the get-go, getting the emails from about 1995 or 1996. I just never bothered with it until 2000.
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Oh, I misread AWADtalk for AWAD. I've known about AWAD since ca. 1995, when I had my own word list (called Uncle Jazzbeau's Gallimaufrey: Words, words, words) and somebody at work pointed out there was another word a day list, AWAD. UJG was never that popular outside of a small circle of friends who had email and almost never got distributed outside of work (Oracle). But some of these same friends would occasionally ask me when my UJG list would get resurrected, and that's why I finally started my blog under the same name. (And that's why some folks on AWADtalk who've known me from day one call me nuncle.)
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