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The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:25 pm God, I hate "threepeat."
On the opposite end, I much prefer "thrice"
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TheJohnP wrote: Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:29 pm
The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:25 pm God, I hate "threepeat."
On the opposite end, I much prefer "thrice"
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tommy_boy wrote: Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:15 pm
TheJohnP wrote: Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:29 pm
The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:25 pm God, I hate "threepeat."
On the opposite end, I much prefer "thrice"
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Usually - never liked it.
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TheJohnP wrote: Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:29 pm
The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:25 pm God, I hate "threepeat."
On the opposite end, I much prefer "thrice"
Third on a match, here: I like "hat trick."

Looks worse than it sounds: "philately," which has a strange etymology to boot. Another is "synecdoche." I actually caught out my pedantic Auntie when she mispronounced it. She hauled out her unabridged Webster's in disbelief. She was a good sport about it though -- what else can you do?
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Fluid. Not so much the sound of it, but it is so overused in the news. Everything is a "fluid situation."
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I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but, "Hate".

It's a vile word, and depending on your personal background and circumstances, laden with so much evil. I often find myself actively avoiding the usage of it. For example, I will use replacers such as "dislike", even if that's not emotive enough for the situation just so that I don't have to use "hate".
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Rabirnie wrote:Synergy


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Here's my submittal: veggie
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Vegan.
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Infomercial.
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Swiss Luminous, lol. "Swiss lume" is what they mean, but it does seem like an attempt to mislead. Broken over two lines it reads more like: "Swiss; Luminous"

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Dollop.
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Lump
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