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We use self-raising flour to bake cakes. This is apparently distinct from the Zildian as well as the OverThePondian "self-rising" flour (can't remember if it was Tweedledum or Tweedledee that mentioned this ). A cake would rise. Again, we'd rarely - if ever - talk about someone raising it, but we'd never talk about someone rising it.
Tweedledum or Tweedledummer here. If this was my linguistic house of cards, I'd be considering razing it. Of course, most houses of cards are self-razing by definition.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Rise/raise
Faldage 08/29/2002 1:28 PM ![]()
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