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Re: WREAK

Postby Slava » Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:20 pm

I don't think it is a different word is it? I just yesterday heard someone refer to skunk smell as 'wreaking". We live near a creak and some woods.
That's "reeking," which means stinking.
No, I think it means he lives near a creak and some woulds.
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Re: WREAK

Postby Audiendus » Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:40 pm

No, I think it means he lives near a creak and some woulds.
The sort of place where you get sickamores and hoarse chestnuts. You can stay there all weak. Some would.

Or you can wade through the dense reads and admire the corny plots, then roam among the rich prayery pastors beyond.

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Re: WREAK

Postby bamaboy56 » Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:25 pm

Gould won, Audiendus! It's ben a wile sense I herd ore red sumthing like this. Is it aknee one-der whigh English is sew hard?
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I'm going to change myself. -- Rumi

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Re: WREAK

Postby Slava » Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:57 pm

Know oneder wee cant reed.
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Re: WREAK

Postby LukeJavan8 » Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:40 am

I don't think it is a different word is it? I just yesterday heard someone refer to skunk smell as 'wreaking". We live near a creak and some woods.
That's "reeking," which means stinking.
No, I think it means he lives near a creak and some woulds.


U guys gots it. I donna no wut use do'in, but I's enjoyin it.
Yeah - crick and woods, skunks and hollers and all thet stuffs.
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Re: WREAK

Postby Philip Hudson » Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:06 pm

Halloween gives occasion to mention two amazing Homophones. Some farmers plant corn (Indian corn) in a maze to be explored by Halloween merry makers. In most of the world, maize is the name given to Indian corn. Thus the farmer has created a maize maze.
It is dark at night, but the Sun will come up and then we can see.

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Re: WREAK

Postby Slava » Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:20 pm

And if it's a great one, it would be an amazing maize maze.
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Re: WREAK

Postby MTC » Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:45 pm

Stop! Stop! You are reeking havoc with words like a bull in a perfume shop.

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Re: WREAK

Postby Philip Hudson » Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:30 pm

MTC: I like humor, and your last post is more than just funny, it is hilarious. You have managed a malapropism and a ruptured idiom in the same sentence. I was thinking of expanding on Slava's last post but it will take some doing to top either of you.
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Re: WREAK

Postby MTC » Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:44 pm

Thank you, Philip.


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