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Take Our Word For It Issue 197  Melanie Crowley
 Feb 06, 2005 22:12 PST 

Take Our Word For It Issue 197
http://www.takeourword.com

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**Greetings**

OK, so we're a week late. It takes a little while to get back into the
rhythm after a year!

**This Week's Issue**

NOTE: The links in this newsletter are good until the next issue is
published.

In Spotlight we delve into the origins of some Native American peoples'
names
http://www.takeourword.com/current/page1.html

In Words to the Wise we bring you the following words:

cleave
http://www.takeourword.com/current/page2.html#cleave

swag (also spelled shwag or schwag)
http://www.takeourword.com/current/page2.html#swag

pronunciation of the letter "z"
http://www.takeourword.com/current/page2.html#zee

repair (go)
http://www.takeourword.com/current/page2.html#repair

before
http://www.takeourword.com/current/page2.html#before

In Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Jim Ross is enormously tired of
enormity
http://www.takeourword.com/current/page3.html

In Sez You... we hear about trump; relatives of "happen";
bookcrossing.com; the tsetse fly; Bill, Ted and Ned; merkin;
practise/practice; pronunciation of "Richard"; "by and large"; "k"; and
pizza
http://www.takeourword.com/current/page4.html

In Laughing Stock we have a surprise at the door
http://www.takeourword.com/current/page5.html

**Book Review**

We will bring you a book review this week (before next week's NOE
issue).

**Laughing Stock**

Please send us material for Laughing Stock. We have run low over the
past year! This week's winner, Lenora Good, will receive a $10 gift
certificate to Amazon.com. Thanks, Lenora! We plan to get the latest
batch of gift certificates out this week.

**Curmudgeons' Corner**

Send us your complaints and you may be the next Guestmudgeon.

**Next Issue**

We plan to bring you a NOE next weekend. The following week we plan to
publish another issue of TOWFI. Bear (and maybe bare) with us as we get
back into a regular schedule.

**Book Store**

Don't forget to check the book store:
http://www.takeourword.com/bookStore.html .

Until next time,
Take Our Word For It!
Melanie and Mike

http://www.takeourword.com
http://www.takeourword.com/indexmac.html
	
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