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To: David Lawrence who wrote (511)	1/4/1998 6:21:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

David, since you were insistent, I decided to accommodate your minuscule but irresistible request to liquefy my brain for a memento to the fact that my spelling is far from all right without my indispensable American Heritage dictionary. Imagine my embarrassment when, devoid of drunkenness, I missed every occurrence of the words italicized in this post-- and five more to boot (gg). - Jeff

To: David Lawrence who wrote (511)	1/4/1998 6:22:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 4711

+33 .guess I'm headed back to night school. I protest the judgment/judgement entry, though. I distinctly remember having a discussion about this with an English teacher in 1987. I had misspelled it in a paper, and I asked her about it as my dictionary indicated either spelling was acceptable. She acknowledged one (I forget which) as preferred whilst noting, sadly, that the other was becoming common enough for inclusion by a few publishers. Here I am, ten years later, getting it wrong again (and still finding dictionaries with both). Forget it&#151from now on, my posts will be in Swahili, another language with which I am completely unfamiliar. -MrB

To: David Lawrence who wrote (511)	1/4/1998 6:31:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 4711

OK, Mr. Smarty-pants, let's see if you can answer this trivia question: What is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other? (Hint below) . . . . . . . . Hint: the two words are "adhere" and "separate". (Answer below) . . . . . . . . On an unrelated note, did you know that the combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful plough man strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." . . . . . . . OK, the answer is "cleave". This question was taken from: vsg.edu.au - Jeff