Re: Word used more than once

Ph.D. wrote:

>caeruleancentaur wrote:
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>>Joe <joe@...> wrote:
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>>>Your dictionary isn't quite right, at least when it
>>>comes to rightpondian English.  Older people
>>>will use 'queer' and 'gay' for 'odd' and 'happy,
>>>bright', younger people won't.
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>>Quaker saying: All the world's queer save me
>>and thee, and even thee's a little queer.
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>Wouldn't that be ". . . and even thou'rt a little queer." ?
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Not among Quakers.  Actually, 'art' has fallen out of use even where
'thou' remains.  Yorkshirepeople say 'tha's'.