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Druthers

Post 1

You can call me TC

http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/2016/10/03/druthers

This is a really useful word. Sometimes the "word of the day" just makes me go smiley - doh - that's part of my every day vocabulary, but sometimes they come up with gems like this.


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Post 2

Icy North

It's American, but it sounds Scottish, doesn't it?

OED says it's first recorded in Tom Sawyer.


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Post 3

Recumbentman

Hadn't heard that one before, but it's nice! It has three definitions in OEDILF, the best being by the unsurpassable Chris Doyle:

If hillbilly men had their druthers,
They'd spend all their days with their brothers
And cousins and kin
Drinking whiskey and gin,
And their nights with their sisters and mothers.

http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?VerseId=337411


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Post 4

There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho

I never heard it until I moved here and I don't hear it very often, but I have heard someone say it in a news story on NPR within the last week. Naturally, I have no idea now which story it was so that I could provide a link to the piece. Unless...

Well, either NPR haven't archived the transcript of that piece, or it hasn't been archived by the search engines I use, or I dreamed the whole thing smiley - zzz

But it has been said many times on NPR over the years https://duckduckgo.com/?q=druthers+site%3Anpr.org


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Post 5

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Li'l Abner had his druthers too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd9sR94iRwg


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Post 6

You can call me TC

I've been reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" and they use it quite a lot in there.


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Post 7

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

If Harper Lee had had her druthers, she probably wouldn't have let them publish "Go set a watchman."


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