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Botanical term = appearing in autumn or late summer.
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A stupid coinage if I ever heard one: A collector of matchbook covers.
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so divine vegetables gone bad would be cornpone?
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A stupid coinage
You'd prefer phillocofocoist?
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Dear etaoin: I hadn't heard of corn pone for a long time. My mother always called it "johnnycake".
And I didn't know until I just looked it up that "pone" is from an Indian word.
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Dear Faldage: locofoco I hadn't heard for a long time. But doesn't fit, because book matches
are safety type, meaning the require special ignition strip, for safety. The locofocos did not.
And the locofocos were not in books.
Even the book matches could be dangerous. I saw a guy in Philippines light a cigarette, holding
the book of matches between index and social finger, with strike strip near his palm. Sweat had
made match heads brittle, and a burning chunk popped onto heads of matches in the book,
and a flame shot out into web between fingers, causing a horrible burn.
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Italian saying
le bugie hanno le gambe corte
Lies have short legs (it means that they cannot run fast, and so are quickly discovered)
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Dear emanuela: But even though they have short legs, lies travel widely.
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Cording to Mr. Twain, a lie gets half way round the world before the truth can get its boots on.
And, as we all know, halfway round the world is farther away than all the way round the world.
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I was surprised to see trite amongst the 'ter-1' derivatives. But I guess the connection is through rub away and wear out. A trite saying would be one that is worn out through overuse.
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