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>HrmWell, it's always hard to write out a sound, especially that of clearing one's throat unobtrusively. I'm glad you could hear it,  so I'm thinking it was kinda close. Funny though, that thing about sounds. They don't always translate the same in different languages. Like dog barking...in French readers they write Woof-woof, but in English readers they write bow-wow) Ooops, does everybody call those learning-to-read books in kindergarten and Grade 1 "readers"?
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Grade 1 "readers"?
Primers and readers? I used a McGuffey's Reader in 3rd grade. A bit retro, even then.
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I used a McGuffey's Reader Ooh, you must be really old! <EG>
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Ooh, you must be really old! It was a reprint, but yes, thanks for asking ... MR made me think I was learning English as a foreign language. But the moral uplift, oh my! 
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Dick, Jane and Spot, for me, one.
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Indulging in a little gadzookery, are we, jheem?
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Indulging in a little gadzookery?Fiath, yes, AnnaStrophic, but just to give you a flavor of language control by committee. I believe I used it correctly: as in "I hope you won't let the boys at the Académie know about my mistake." Come on! I use "yup" and "ain't", too, for false folksiism.
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 Shoot, Jim-Bob, I was making what I considered to be a felicitous reference to today's W.A.D. (pardon my French).
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Sorry about that. I hadn't seen the WAD yet. Shucks, I'm just plumb ashamed. Mea culpa.
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