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    So,you were fooled then?

    We thought so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Besoeker View Post
    Not at all.
    Maybe you missed the irony.
    "were" for "where" is geographically phonetic.
    But it doesn't work in written English.
    Best to go with wear
    "That government is best which governs least."
    "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries".
    "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
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    Quote Originally Posted by g hall View Post
    Best to go with wear
    But, it neither sounds like, nor looks like "where"......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Besoeker View Post
    But, it neither sounds like, nor looks like "where"......
    or whirr ....
    "That government is best which governs least."
    "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries".
    "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
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    Quote Originally Posted by g hall View Post
    or whirr ....
    Not that either.

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    Oh bu88er ..
    "That government is best which governs least."
    "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries".
    "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
    TANSTAAFL
    TANJ



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    In Bristol it's thur, as in, thur thee bist.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Little Englander (sour) View Post
    In Bristol it's thur, as in, thur thee bist.
    Well, I thank you for the compliment LE and, much as it is flattering, I think it inappropriate.
    Some must think I'm moderately good in my field because it gets me business.
    The best or bist? Not by some margin.
    Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Besoeker View Post
    Well, I thank you for the compliment LE and, much as it is flattering, I think it inappropriate.
    Some must think I'm moderately good in my field because it gets me business.
    The best or bist? Not by some margin.
    You, not being familiar with Bristolian colloquialism, I translate thur thee bist - there you are
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