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Old 03-16-2008   #210 (permalink)
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Arrow Re: Homonyms and Their Grammatical Heirs

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Originally Posted by mynah View Post
One of the most embarrassing mistakes of my teenage years was discovering, on receiving an essay back, that I'd written, "She whore a red dress"...
The whore's red dress, with its trim waist, embarrassed him at the waste of fabric in the shoulders.


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semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter

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