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My impressions of this matter are quite delible, markable, and phatic.
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markable and phatic? Bad form, old boy.
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dr. bill, is it thinkable that W'ON would have no rationale that makes his post explicable? Let's be more gonistic. 
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markable and phatic? Bad form, old boy.re em > reem > I guess I just got reemed, huh?  The Only WO'N!
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Dear WO'N: you reminded me of my wife's favorite grandfather, a traveling salesman, who picked up a lot of salty expressions from his companions, and got revenge for being henpecked by teaching his wife and my mother-in-law some of them, which they repeated totally unaware of the indecent content. So I had trouble keeping my face straight when my mother-in-law would complain about having been "rimmed" in an unsatisfactory purchase.He also taught them to describe being detained by pointless conversation as being "hung up by the tongue." I had to explain that to my wife to keep her from using it. She had trouble believing her dear sweet grandfather could be so devious.
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AWAD members can cut the mustard!
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FF: My cousin gave me a book of poems written by Felicia Lamport and illustrated by Edward Gorey which contains one about "souciance."
I can see where this would happen FF, since souciance is a word commonly used in French - so is insouciance. Correct me if I'm wrong all you word etymology mavens out there but insouciance looks like it has been borrowed from the French.
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And for those who may be interested in WW's "cut the mustard" here is Quinion's (www.worldwidewords.com) URL about it: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cut1.htm
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And for those who may be interested in WW's "cut the mustard" here is Quinion's (www.worldwidewords.com) URL about it: When I tested it, it worked only with edit,copy,,,edit, paste http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cut1.htm
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