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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Please #142352 04/28/2005 7:59 AM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK You do know that (a) I'm a NZer, and (b) the strained pronunciation I was talking about was of the German half of the pun? ~ VC Er, yes, but I was picking up on your general statement: It seems that straining a word's pronunciation to fit a pun is de rigeur, if the many on this board are any guide ...and anyway, I was just trying to provoke TEd! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted loan [red]word[/red] from German inselpeter 04/21/2005 8:36 PM Re: loan words from German Faldage 04/21/2005 9:58 PM Re: loan words from German inselpeter 04/21/2005 10:16 PM Re: loan words from German Faldage 04/22/2005 9:48 AM Re: loan words from German inselpeter 04/22/2005 11:07 AM Re: loan words from German maverick 04/22/2005 3:09 PM Re: loan words from German inselpeter 04/22/2005 4:54 PM Re: loan words from German AnnaStrophic 04/22/2005 5:58 PM Re: loan words from German Vernon Compton 04/22/2005 6:33 PM Re: krank inselpeter 04/22/2005 9:10 PM Re: krank Faldage 04/22/2005 9:27 PM Re: krank Vernon Compton 04/22/2005 10:22 PM Re: krank inselpeter 04/23/2005 1:10 AM Re: krank Vernon Compton 04/23/2005 2:13 AM Re: krank Faldage 04/23/2005 11:30 AM Re: krank inselpeter 04/23/2005 11:49 AM Please AnnaStrophic 04/23/2005 1:38 PM Re: Please inselpeter 04/23/2005 3:25 PM Re: Please inselpeter 04/25/2005 1:21 PM Re: Please AnnaStrophic 04/25/2005 2:48 PM Re: Please Vernon Compton 04/26/2005 8:36 PM Re: Please dxb 04/27/2005 11:26 AM Re: Please Vernon Compton 04/27/2005 11:37 AM Re: Please porridge Buffalo Shrdlu 04/27/2005 12:00 PM Re: Please porridge inselpeter 04/27/2005 8:13 PM Re: Please dxb 04/28/2005 7:59 AM Re: Krank inselpeter 04/23/2005 11:43 AM Re: loan words from German inselpeter 04/24/2005 2:29 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,374 Members9,211 Most Online7,006 Mar 7th, 2026 Newest Members Boo boo kitty fu, peterreineck, Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd 9,211 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 34 A C Bowden 15 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,202 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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