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Re: New word for old
Posted by: Tari (129.62.120.---)
Date: February 27, 2006 07:53PM

ah, there is an "anti"... bah

I love how long German words can be, it's great, I just have trouble remembering them.



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: splat21 (---.range86-137.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 27, 2006 08:30PM

it doesn't have to have an 'anti' Tari. People only use it with anti on the front because it's longer. Unless they're talking about changing the status of the CoE, of course...



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Re: New word for old
Posted by: Puck (---.hsd1.mi.comcast.net)
Date: February 27, 2006 09:12PM

Just to be different:

if



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: Lovelornninja (---.server.ntli.net)
Date: February 28, 2006 05:14PM

umlaut
p.s. Kaz didnt see your welsh name thingy when I posted mine...or maybe I did subliminally!sos



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: Puck (---.bloomfield.org)
Date: February 28, 2006 05:39PM

Pout

(are we still doing the rhyming thing?)



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: Tari (129.62.120.---)
Date: February 28, 2006 06:47PM

splat, we knows, but the word that all the kiddies love has anti in front of it.

gout

(sure!)



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: kaz (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: February 28, 2006 08:43PM

nowt


Re: New word for old
Posted by: Puck (---.hsd1.mi.comcast.net)
Date: February 28, 2006 08:45PM

Out

(damn spot!)



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: kaz (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: February 28, 2006 08:46PM

Lout


Much easier to rhyme, these words.


Re: New word for old
Posted by: Puck (---.hsd1.mi.comcast.net)
Date: February 28, 2006 08:48PM

Doubt



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (61.68.171.---)
Date: March 01, 2006 07:09AM

Spout

Re: New word for old
Posted by: kaz (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: March 01, 2006 07:26AM

drought


Re: New word for old
Posted by: Lovelornninja (---.server.ntli.net)
Date: March 02, 2006 01:17PM

Sprout



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: Puck (---.bloomfield.org)
Date: March 02, 2006 05:04PM

Trout

(watch the fish puns materialize on this thread too...)



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: Tari (129.62.120.---)
Date: March 02, 2006 05:14PM

pout (eek, fish puns! Run away!)



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: Puck (---.bloomfield.org)
Date: March 02, 2006 05:21PM

Clout

(But we love fish puns! Sea, I'm almost horse with laughter!)



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: Tari (129.62.120.---)
Date: March 02, 2006 05:24PM

Dang, pout was the first word in this sequence, so how about...

route

ouch Puck, that one hurt :)



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: Puck (---.bloomfield.org)
Date: March 02, 2006 05:28PM

Flout

(Which hurt, Tari? The clout or the pun?)



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: splat21 (---.range86-138.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 02, 2006 07:51PM

Prognosticate



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Re: New word for old
Posted by: Holly Daze (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: March 02, 2006 09:02PM

I didn't see that coming.

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