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> Follow up and continuation. What!? Now we
can't even refer to something someone else has said without being accused of aggravated mantlery?
asserts with intent to mantle?
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While I would like to thank Faldenkrantz and Alexstern for their entertaining sideshow, my simple mind was focussed on the use of the word "originating". Mr. Garg's own email said that the word originated in Britain. The theme for the week was not "words that were coined somewhere else, but given currency in Oz". So, unless the word was born spontaneously in a miserable, God-forsaken hole and in Cornwall, the word doesn't belong, imvho.
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I'm not accusing anyone of anything. But what the heck is "aggravated mantlery"?
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aggravated mantlery
that's what happens when Santa gets stuck...
formerly known as etaoin...
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No, no, no, et'--that's what happens when the real Santa gets stuck while an imposter tries to make a grand entrance.
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Well, I did wonder max, but since you'd already asked the question, it hardly seemed worth it asking again.
The only plea in mitigation I can think of is that it seems to have a different meaning in Australia than it does in Cornwall. Or is it actually a Cornish-language word that was adopted into English in Australia?
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real Santaho, ho, ho. right you are, dub-dub. 
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My first appearance in this thread for something over 2 years, I think...time constraints, long story, yadda yadda.
Decided to reward myself this evening; I've missed this thread more than any of the others I'm not reading any more; and not reading here has caused me more than one embarrassing moment. I shall try to keep up from now on.
Anyway--something about last Monday's word struck me as unusual for Anu, and...I discovered that last week's words were from a guest wordsmith, Mr. Eric Shackle of Australia. I intend to e-mail him a thank-you--he is in his 80's, after all. [road to you-know-where]
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My first appearance in this thread for something over 2 years
Not bad, considering it's just now celebrating its first weekaversary.
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and I was here just week last...
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