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"Enter your PIN now, please," So why would that make a person suddenly talkative?
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>PIN number is another example since there are possible contexts in which it might not be clear if you really meant that little sharp pointy thing..
sure. you're in the bank, having finally reached the front of a long line, and the teller says, "Enter your PIN now, please," so you jab 'er.
-ron o. Or either you have just gotten your bank card and you have to activate it in the bank's card reader. The bank employee then says, "Now select a PIN." and you look about for the pen they want you to use to sign the card.
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To the Towern you! Special cells for agressive Pinners.
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Or either you have just gotten your bank card and you have to activate it in the bank's card reader. The bank employee then says, "Now select a PIN." and you look about for the pen they want you to use to sign the card. else they ask for your PIN number and you've got a pen to hand and you frantically search for the PIN* everywhere on its surface. *Pen Identification Number - joe (pardon my reduncity) friday
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WordSwords are effective weapons.
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Ta, metadata
I do like quoting him tho' never the Twain I shall meet.
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Here in New Orleans (which is where the word is most often used, BTW), we have a weekly entertainment tabloid in the Times-Picayune each Friday by the same name.
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Ooh, ooh--Cajundweeb (welcome aBoard, by the way), is your paper where we got the word picayunish? (sp?)
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picayunishEnglish picayune is from the Louisiana Regional French (aka Cajun (Acadian) French) picaillon 'a small coin'. It was a half of a Spanish real and, in turn, was a 16th of a Spanish dollar: half a bit or five cents (really US$0.065).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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and Times-Picayune probly was originally meant to reflect the price of the paper, and not the value of its content(s)!
-ron o.
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