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Origin of "I'm rubber, you're glue"?

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A Whole Nother (full episode)

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Sailor's Delight (full episode)

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Use of "Arabic" vs "Arab"

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Southern "Miss" for married women?

Mar-06-10
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Mar-12-10
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"Timeless" and "Universal" Questions

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crestmere

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Desperately seeking a title, with apologies for the length of this message!

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Feb-07-10
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Mar-11-10
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jopa123

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Boy Scouts' "Tu"

Mar-09-10
6:07PM by
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telemath

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Profanity, curses and other generally offensive terms or phrases.

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Ammon

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Ammon

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shut the lights – a regionalism or what?

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How do you pronounce "both"? Please take our survey!

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Grant Barrett

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Grant Barrett

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Sufficiently Suffonsified (full episode)

Feb-27-10
11:03AM by
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A Snarl of Serial Commas

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Agenda 2/6/2010

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Hathaway

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11:20PM by
lynnmelo

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The "thinker upper" and comma outside quotes

Feb-07-10
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escared

Feb-26-10
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Martha's Orts

The Gallery of Regrettable Punctuation

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Nov-21-07
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martha

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The Lexicographer's Rules

A thesaurus can be harmful

Aug-06-08
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Grant Barrett

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9:24PM by
lynnmelo

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General Discussion

man on a flying horse

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Garbanzo beans or chickpeas?

Mar-04-10
10:56AM by
Grant Barrett

Mar-06-10
10:49AM by
Grant Barrett

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"Eye/I the kitty."

Mar-05-10
12:54PM by
Rev Nan

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Rev Nan

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