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Kieran Mullen · 26 Mar 1997, 10:41 · from whorl-v0004.mbox · original

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From: Kieran Mullen <kieran at phyast.nhn.ou.edu>
Subject: (whorl) Re:  Digest whorl.v001.n070
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:41:06
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[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

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>Re: Tick Talk
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    I had always thought that that "add word" was Tick's way of saying
"Bad word" - a euphemism for swearing.  Otherwise it would be either=20
"wadd word"  (b -> w)  or  "add erd"  (drop initial b's).  But from the
context I think was wrong, and the CW on the list is right.

                  Kieran Mullen



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