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Yes! It's just past "income tax time" here in the US, but nothing is all that simple. There are deadlines, and then there are extensions. If you don't owe any money, there is no deadline. Why would there be? Yet, an attempt to define the grey area in the applicability of "taxable" uses a word which itself represents a linguistic grey area... and a rather taxing(sic) one, at that.
It just sounds too much like an NJ accent *issue, don't it?
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Avoision grates, unsweet the sound
That makes me retch like this.
I once was well, but now am bound
to find this word's a miss.
TEd
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Amazing grades, I'm past this round,
for now the end of tests.
I once read much, but now I sound-
-ly sleep through fast of breks
(spring break week, from my recollection, has ALWAYS been and will always be the third week in April not the March time off that the collegiate crowd has scheduled)
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Nobody says Joisey in New Jersey
Juan's right, of course. They say "Jaisey."
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Here in NZ, the IRD uses "avoidance" for the legal mininisming of tax payable, "evasion" for the illegal version. No need of avoision.
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Vernon, you have got to be kidding! It was a spectator sport when I lived there!
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I was referring to the terminology, not the action described. Having had more than one family member work for the IRD, I've never heard the word "avoision" before, although the action it describes is as popular as you say.
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the word "avoision" A new word for avoidance, I reckon.
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No, this is a new voision. As in "I have an avoision to paying tax."
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A voision is coming to me.... of me, sitting on a park bench around tax time next year, surfing with my laptop with the new MS IE voision 7, and having an aviosion to typing on those crunched together keys.
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