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Dear Angel: I am consistently inconsistent. Next time I'll do it your way.
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Agreed, Angel. Otherwise it would be impossible to distinguish aurally between: 1) an urologist; 2) a neurologist; 3) Anu, giver of the Word (Anu, all-logist)
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Dear Keiva: Unless I've got my mouth full, you can tell when I'm saying "an urologist" and "a neurologist". And I avoid talking with my mouth full. Or even less than half full. Or even any food in my mouth.
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That's fortunate, dr. bill. You surely can imagine, even more than I, the potential confusion if the hospital calls in a neurologist when a(n) urologist is required, or vice versa. Confusing medical specialites can have great consequence!
(e.g.: As a jewish mother met, at the airport, the plane bringing her daughter home from exotic lands, there also deplaned a man dressed in feathers with exotic markings all over his body and carrying a shrunken head. "Mom, meet my new husband," said the girl in greeting. Gasped mother, "Sadie! Sadie! I told you to marry a rich doctor!")
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Hospitals do funny things. When I was in hospital in Camp Grant in WWII, Orthopedic ward was run by cardiologist, and Pneumonia ward was run by orthopedist. Fortunately they were allowed to cooperate.
Which reminds me of yarn I heard about situation in WWII, when an orthopedist in charge of neurology ward applied skeletal traction to case with fractured cervical vertebra by means of of a yoke attached to a Kirschner wire (a thing like a long knitting needle) from above one ear to the other. The med student who told me this at times was not a stickler for exactitude. He claimed his brother who was Army doctor told him about it.But it makes a good story.
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>is it listed in the Book?
nobut. antistœchal - arranged in opposite ranks, arrayed against (from Gk antistœchos, in opposite rows)
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YOU speak accented English ...
Well, yeah. I know that cause Rubrick told me. Maybe you should FtF with him sometime.
Ha, ha. I did, though, didn't I?? That was one bit of the diner converastion I forgot, Faldage. Thanks for reminding me. I'm not immune to the accented English myself with my brogue.
As for antistoecons such as strand and strond Yeatsian assonance comes to mind. Anyone who's read, seen the stageplay or the wonderful film Educating Rita will be familiar with Rita's definition of assonance - "Yes, it means getting the rhyme wrong."
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Rubrick told me
I did, though, didn't I?
And pinned down a majority of the influences, too, I might add, to the amazement of both the lovely AnnaS and me.
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As for antistoecons such as strand and strond Yeatsian assonance comes to mind. Anyone who's read, seen the stageplay or the wonderful film Educating Rita will be familiar with Rita's definition of assonance - "Yes, it means getting the rhyme wrong."
Great film. I empathise with it quite a lot, since I taught in a polytechnic where an awfully high percentage of the student population were "Ritas".
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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