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JoeSpareBedroom JoeSpareBedroom is offline
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"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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>> "Omelet" > wrote in message
>> news >>
>> > The recent thread on dirty leeks made me think about just
>> > how many people have no clu' where food really comes from.

>>
>> I wonder how many don't know how to spell clue, and don't
>> realize how pointless affectation wreck the beauty of
>> language, unless you're Mark Twain.

>
> It's whitetrashbonics, which is rapidly gaining acceptance
> as a legitimate dialect of the American language. :-)


That certainly describes Omelet perfectly. She also likes to throw the
occasional foreign phrase into her messages in order to appear worldly.
Chooks, indeed.