Drunken.
Ointment.
Boorish.
Brat.
Crap timing.
Tantrum.
Truly.
Venue.
Overheard.
Torn up into tiny pieces.
Scales (as in 'fallen from eyes')
Buttonholes.
Deprived. (Underlined, and then, after a thoughtful moment, rubbed out again.)
NB. This is now a far better story than the original article. Just shows, you can never edit too much.
Tuesday, 20 September 2005
Words the Dutch lady sitting next to me carefully underlined in the article she was reading, presumably because she didn't understand them.
Posted by John Finnemore at 9:20 pm
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She probably rubbed out "deprived" because she mistook it for "depraved."
Wow that was odd. I just wrote an really long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn't appear. Grrrr... well I'm not writing all that over
again. Anyhow, just wanted to say wonderful blog!
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