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From "engines" 1456:
A word to consider next time you open a new ream
of shiny white paper is the Arabic word rizmah. It
means a bale or a bundle. The Spanish made rizmah
into resma, and the French made reyme of it. It
finally became the English word ream -- a bundle of
twenty quires (or 500 sheets) of paper. That
word-trail matches the trail of paper almost perfectly
as it moved from the east to the west.
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Dear Faldage: my mother-in-law had learned a lot of salty words from her father, who had
been a traveling salesman. He was henpecked, and retaliated by slyly teaching his wife
salty expressions learned from fellow traveling salesmen. One of them was "reamed" meaning
being sodomised in a financial transaction. I had to explain it to my wife to keep her from
using it with friends who might know the vulgar origin.
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Dr. Bill's jack-in-the-boxing tsuwm.
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jack-in-the-boxing
Yeahbut® did you see how tsuwm pulled that double reverse on him?
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no need to go that far, Bill.
formerly known as etaoin...
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Dear wwh,
You're always in a piacular mood. This ain't even picayune news.
Now were you to be in an oracular mood, well, hey, that would be somethin' new! Or even an avuncular mood, quite unlike you. Spectacular? Well, yes, you've been that at times. But please avoid nucular moods since they make Faldage, in particular, testy.
Best regards,
WW
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