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the suspicion with which a "newbie" might be greeted here aptually® we have a long history of exceptionally welcoming and receptive attitudes on this board - you enter on the coat-tails of discord which has seemed at times to deliberately ferment such attitudes. So in the spirit of enquiring minds, I bid you welcome, draw up a seat and have fun! yeah, right, that's what we need, another lawyer...

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I also love Tom Stoppard's idea in the script of "Shakespeare in Love" that all his best plots came from Marlowe.I've seen it three times now and laughed just as hard the third time. "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter." 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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If I take your point correctly, WO'N: from A Midsummer's Night's Dream, Wm Shakespeare? Francis Bacon? Edward DeVere? Christopher Marlowe?, I can only agree with you by saying - what's in a name? A rose by any other..........
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A rose by any other name would still have thorns.
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???? faldage? Non capisco.
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May I add my, somewhat belated welcome to you, SilkMuse. May you spin us many an interesting yarn. And how dare you suggest that our beloved Bill Shakespeare was anything other than our beloved Wm Shaksper. 
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A rose by any other name would still have thorns.We can complain because rosebushes have thorns or rejoice because thornbushes have roses. The Only WO'N!
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"deliberately ferment such attitudes."
Dear mav: to tease you gently,whouldn't this be in WW's thread about words that get confused?
ferment vs foment
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