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>I always find it queer (1-man band trying to get that word back to its former meaning < s >) ...
Make that two. Queer as it may seem to some, I will continue using the word the way I learned it - in its original, unpoluted meaning.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)