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OP This Sunday morning, I am committed neither to the church which I have been serving for the last nine months nor to my own congregation, to which I will return next Sunday. In describing this sublime estate in a note to a friend, I used the phrase "playing hookie" to which MicroSoft's spell checker objected, insisting that what is being played is "hooky." Could be.
Some words are, I think, mostly oral and some mostly written. Hooky is, it seems to me, what you say more than what you write.
I know exactly what I mean by it, but what does it mean?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Playing hooky Father Steve 04/24/05 03:30 PM Re: Playing hooky TEd Remington 04/24/05 06:45 PM Re: Playing hooky Father Steve 04/24/05 07:05 PM Re: Playing hooky Elizabeth Creith 04/24/05 08:30 PM Re: Playing hooky Elizabeth Creith 04/24/05 08:31 PM Re: Playing hooky Father Steve 04/24/05 11:55 PM Re: Playing hooky maverick 04/25/05 08:42 AM Re: Playing hooky Faldage 04/25/05 10:16 AM Re: Playing hooky maverick 04/25/05 10:36 AM Re: Playing hooky Faldage 04/25/05 10:39 AM Re: Playing hooky maverick 04/25/05 11:12 AM
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