tem·blor
Pronunciation: 'tem-bl&r; 'tem-"blor, tem-'
Function: noun
Etymology: Spanish, a trembling, earthquake, from temblar, to shake, from Vulgar Latin *tremulre, from Latin tremulus, shaking
Now, why in the world don't they just call it a 'tremblor' like half of the population? Where'd the R go?
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Re: temblor
-with Jason and the R-go-nuts?...
Now, why in the world don't they just call it a 'tremblor' like half of the population? Where'd the R go?
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots! Knife no one, fink!
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Took me a while to find it:Perry declined to decline his first verb...
Although, actually, one might decline to use a verb but one doesn't decline a verb; that's a conjugative (not conjugal!) activity.I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
-- Mark Twain, The Awful German Language
Regards//Larry
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
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Aye, and those that come under cover of darkness create the Nights Tremblor.A small earthquake, then?
Regarding Volvo, anyone know the Latin word for "I bring an insatiable repair bill appetite"?
Buy a Volvo once, shame on them; buy another one- you can't get fooled again
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