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OP A recent Today's Word reminds me of merriment the Brits have with Americans trying to prove they are armigerous. Most of them were connected to noble families only on the wrong side of the blankets. I enjoyed Mark Twain's story about the American whose family had a tradition that they emigrated to American due to the unfortunate outcome of a cavalry engagement. Research in England disclosed that "cavalry engagement" had actually been horse stealing.
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