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"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:

> "Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
> ...
> > JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
> >>
> >> "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.

I started my internet career on a poultry list...
It was not just the Aussies that called them "chooks".

I'm sorry that you are so enamored of only one dialect.

Your loss babe.
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Peace, Om

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