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Braling II
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WG,
Do a "find" for "murmur" on this site, and you'll find many posts - nearly all by Rocket! Though, he was going through an identity crisis at the time ...
 
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fjp451
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"'Keelhaul' is a very good word!" he murmured.
 
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WildGravity
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alright so, just to switch things up, My word of the day will be murmur.


If there is a God, I know he likes to rock.
 
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rocket
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undercurrent


She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist...

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Braling II
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gormless
 
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Braling II
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sackbut
 
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dragonfly
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I've always heard a sackbut accompanied by a krumhorn
 
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Braling II
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...and often also by a rackett!
 
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dragonfly
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Oh, this is too funny!

No one said

petard

???
 
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Braling II
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Well, one rarely does say petard, does one?
 
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dragonfly
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Uh huh.

In stark contrast to the egregious overuse of the words sackbut, tintinnabulation, hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, stultify, neamatocyst, toxophilite, autodidact and polymath.

If you suggest that it is the only rare word, you are hoist on your own petard!
 
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fjp451
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"Assissi" is a beautiful word!
Oct.4.
 
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Braling II
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Did you mean "Assisi"?
 
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Braling II
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By the way, if Bill Gates is a Bradbury fan, and he would agree to fund our board members' get-together, that would be a most welcome eleemosynary act!
 
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Doug Spaulding
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Originally posted by Braling II:
Did you mean "Assisi"?

I believe either spelling is correct, other Mr B.

Like Canadien & Canadian.


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