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Word play
Went to a scrabblefest today organised by scrabble groups in neighbouring towns. I played five games and won only one, and the scores for that were close. Even a French woman beat me, twice. She totted up the scores in French so I had some practice in French as well as in addition. I put down the word MOW. She asked me if it was a regular verb. Yer what? I thought. Her English was better than mine. She wanted to know if she could add ED to the end to make the past tense. At least I knew that. Regular verbs; I must have learnt about them more years ago than I care to remember.
The French woman had a little notebook in which she wrote down words with which she was unfamiliar. Depressingly diligent and organised, I thought.
Thought for today
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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