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theunixgeek

Idiosyncrasy

Feb 15, 2009 17:05

I'd say my favorite word is idiosyncrasy. Well, at least in English. How so?

Well, English itself is an idiosyncratic language. Idiosyncrasy is pronounced ˌɪdi.əˈsɪŋkɹəsi. I mean, how much more messed up can you get than that? If you get a speaker of a Lower Romance language to pronounce it without any knowledge of English, they'd probably say ( Read more... )

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Herbert Crede Documents ext_355915 December 13 2010, 11:23:56 UTC

I also have documents from Herbert Crede' Purchased them at a yard sale in Sarasota. Scanned all, and made PDF''s to CD's.

Re: Herbert Crede Documents ext_355915 December 13 2010, 11:29:50 UTC

I had lost the business card of the couple that was selling them. I was told to contact them in the hopes of finding more of them. They had not unpacked all of the items and had the area rented for the one day in Sarasota.They purchased a "Lot" from another individual. The women told me she may find more documents/correspondence once she unpacked everything in their shop in North Port or Port Charlotte.