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#36214 07/22/01 12:26 PM
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Yep, y'all're right, this is not about the weekly theme. It's about the weekly mail, and I decided to post here in this underused forum for the obvious reason.

One of the E-mails to Anu this week concerns "dilemma" vs "dilemna," an issue I'd never heard of before except when it was once brought up here and tsuwm set the world straight:

http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=587

A thought:

Anu set his correspondent straight as tsuwm did the board members. Still, I'm thinking of sending the lady an E-mail and inviting her to participate here. If she and her 20 friends thought "dilemNa" was correct, then they need to be among us.

Comments?


#36215 07/22/01 12:35 PM
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Where have I been? I've never even heard of "dilemna."

[Sparteye wanders off, looking up the chimbley of her libary fireplace, hoping to find a clue.]


#36216 07/22/01 12:40 PM
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Sparteye asks: Where have I been? I've never even heard of "dilemna."

Zackley my point. I hadn't either 'til someone brought it up here. And I can tell you where you've been. In all the "right" bars


#36217 07/22/01 03:51 PM
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I done went ahead and E-mailed my namesake inviting her aBoard.


#36218 07/22/01 08:20 PM
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For you, good! I also emailed that guy who had an interesting perspective on the Viet vets - some new blood would always be welcome round these prats, sorry that should read parts


#36219 07/22/01 08:26 PM
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S'OK, mav. We allow special ablutions, dispensations and indulgences for those who anastrophize within words.


#36220 07/23/01 12:06 PM
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And I'm assuming that alia is a pun.

The other(female) is cast (for)?

I usually miss your puns, my dear AnnaS, since I never expect them.



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