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My crossword threw me off with this word. The clue was "forcibly"... the answer, "swith". What? a valid word? I'd like to know if it appears in Oxford... it surely doesn't appear in any of my dictionaries.
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המקום שלך ללימודי א גלית לימודי א גלית לכל הרמות כולל א גלית עסקית ושירותי תרגום איכותיים.
What's wrong with the Google Ads!??!
World's going insane!
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Swith appears in Merriam-Webster's.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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chiefly dialect : INSTANTLY, QUICKLY
yeahbut, the forcibly or strongly sense is obsolete, last attested by OED from 1398!
Last edited by tsuwm; 08/27/06 06:51 PM.
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I didn't know crosswords were popular in 1398
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