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07/01/2008 13:38:57
 
 
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Movies
Category:
Horrors
Title:
Miscellaneous
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>>>>>>Must have been a best seller <g>. I bet if he rear-ended you, you could find a lawyer who would sew the author of the book <g>
>>>>>
>>>>>Accidentally, "to sew someone" in our slang back home means "beat him dead in a card game". Though I assume you had a different game in mind, with a similar outcome :).
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>>>>I meant "sue". This is the peculiarity of English where words with different meanings are spelled the same <g>
>>>
>>>But they aren't pronounced the same - at least over here. "Sew" is pronounced as "so" (But we sow seeds in a field (also pronounced as "so"). Similarly a variant of "show" is "shew", also pronounced the same.
>>
>>You are right. I was just trying to weasel myself out of admitting that I made a spelling mistake <g>
>
>And we incorporate French from time to time so 'Sue' and 'Sault' are pronounced 'soo'

What is sault? I'd pronounce that as "so", being a francophone.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
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