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Old 26-12-2011, 11:29   #10
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Re: Linguistic tic's and crutches

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob View Post
I'm a baker I do typo's, mea culpa.

You used to be a proofreader, it is circumflex not circumflew. Touche (e accute) I think. 'circumflew' sounds like something from a Harry Potter novel
Oops! set myself up for that... hoist with my own petard - or something like that.

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Originally Posted by steve2qec View Post
Circumflex!!
Bête noire....just cut & paste it from Google, like I do....
I know Steve, just can't be a**ed. By the time I've finished putting in all the spaces and caps that the dodgy space bar and shift key on this computer leave out I've had enough!

Perhaps this is how new words arise:

circumflew = round the world airline trip ticket
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