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Default Why Does Yor Nose Run When Eating Hot/Spicy Foods?


"RichD" > wrote in message
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> On Jul 22, Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>> >> Why does your nose run when eating hot/spicy foods?

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>> >A deeper question is... why does your nose run,
>> >and your feet smell?

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>> Avocation not vocation.

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> What is the opposite of inflammable?
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This is true, and so weird. Flammable and inflamable mean the same thing.
But the reason is, the words are based upon two different base words--flame
and inflame. I think.