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On Tue, 20 May 2014 12:24:57 -0400, James Silverton
> wrote:

> On 5/20/2014 12:14 PM, sf wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 May 2014 09:13:02 -0400, James Silverton
> > > wrote:
> >>>
> >> It's quite obvious that I eat
> >> much less dressing but is this a "dip" or a "dressing"?

> >
> > Shhhh. You're not supposed to ask that question because he doesn't
> > know what mansplaining is and didn't bother to look it up (which means
> > he's probably a typical "mansplainer" in RL).

>
> That must be a pretty recent coinage and it has not hit the online
> Oxford English Dictionary as yet. It is technically a "******* word"
> tho' I suppose you could dignify it by calling it a portmanteau word.
> The "plain" part of explain is from Latin planus meaning flat.


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