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..are born CREATORS; others, even if from non-nuclear (or is it nuc-u-lar?) families, are

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with a sentimental passion
of a vegetable fashion

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drop E

CARROTS !

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..said, sorta, Don't Fences me in...

CORRALS

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..presents a few weeks down the road for some

OSCARS

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SCARAB

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My Grandmother must have come from the other side of the river - she spelled it with a T

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BORSCHT

which is where the "Borscht Circuit" in the Catskills got its name from - all the New York City dwellers went there in the summer to escape the heat. They stayed in big hotels - Grossingers, the Nevele, etc. Sid Caesar and Mel Brooks and many others honed their comedy skills there...

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OED says both spellings.

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BOTCHERS

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the other side of the river, or even the next town over, is all you need to account for different (and equally "right") pronunciation or spelling. Especially when so often it's transliterated Cyrillic anyway.

BOTCHERS

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..I engage in

BLATHER ..making me a BLATHERskite

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..wholesale? or must I pay

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..who did the walls&floor in our bathroom has a good reputation; truly among the TILER

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ELATE

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LATTE

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..supposed to be revealed until after we'd had our coffee-break

TATTLE

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CHATTEL

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CHALET

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LATCHES

(Not quite the estate in Josephine Tey's Brat Fararr, but close... Read and enjoy!)

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..my SATCHEL; but they don't allow what they deem subversive reading here, so I'll have to do so with

STEALTH

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"Go Back Three Spaces" and roll again

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Sorry.

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..I made a boo-boo,& this is a hasty correction; I was too late to be allowed to delete entirely

STEALS

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...or any other PASTEL

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