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  Grandson Came, Cleaned, Cooked

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  pork chops, grits-broccoli-cheese casserole, celery & green onions smothered in turkey broth.. oh, frabjous day, calloo callay!.

  or, something like that.. tee hee hee..

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  compound complex

  On a sadder note, grits were used as punishment in the film, The Secret Life of Bees.
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  Grandson Came, Cleaned, Cooked

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  pork chops, grits-broccoli-cheese casserole, celery & green onions smothered in turkey broth.. oh, frabjous day, calloo callay!.

  or, something like that.. tee hee hee..

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  I was puzzled regarding a line uttered by Ralph Fiennes in HOTEL BUDAPEST:

  "May I offer any of you inmates a plate of mush?"

  I was expecting him to say "porridge," given the background of the characters and setting. Well, the American "mush" was certainly funnier. Still, I was in conflict. We kids had mush nearly every day for breakfast back in the '50s. USA.
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  Grandson Came, Cleaned, Cooked

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  pork chops, grits-broccoli-cheese casserole, celery & green onions smothered in turkey broth.. oh, frabjous day, calloo callay!.

  or, something like that.. tee hee hee..

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  Hominy grits are a type of grits made from hominy with the germ removed, which is corn that has been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization.

  Grits are usually served with other flavorings as a breakfast dish, usually savory.

  You're right, Syl! Hominy people really know this?

  https://www.google.com/search?q=hominy+grits&oq=hominy&aqs=chrome.4.69i57j0l5.8159j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
  
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  Words for the Day; please share

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  escheat:

  reversion of land to state when there are no heirs

  warren:

  Safely within the warren were the quivering rabbits; the raging storm without failed to buffet the now sheltered denizens.

  weir:

  This winter, in Sacramento, California, weirs (horizontal barriers across the width of a river) were opened manually to lower the steadily rising waters.
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  Grandson Came, Cleaned, Cooked

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  pork chops, grits-broccoli-cheese casserole, celery & green onions smothered in turkey broth.. oh, frabjous day, calloo callay!.

  or, something like that.. tee hee hee..

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  2. 
  3. 
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  compound complex

  Family joke: Some acquaintance of ours, unfamiliar with grits, looked at the menu in a restaurant and asked what a "grit" was.
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  Quick question can a monisterial servant conduct the watchower

  by poopie in

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  hello.

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  compound complex

  There's an edit icon for the heading.

  Used it myself recently when I went into a lather over unthinkingly using incorrect punctuation. Fortunately, I spotted the error within the 30-minute limit.

  Some mistakes, however, can never be undone . . .
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  Grandson Came, Cleaned, Cooked

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  pork chops, grits-broccoli-cheese casserole, celery & green onions smothered in turkey broth.. oh, frabjous day, calloo callay!.

  or, something like that.. tee hee hee..

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  compound complex

  I like my grub smothered!

  
  
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  Words for the Day; please share

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  fealty:

  What true believer JWs give the Governing Body. Will fawning obeisance be next?

  obeisance
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  Words for the Day; please share

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
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  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  entail (n. & v.)

  First heard this when spoken by Scout, in To Kill a Mockingbird. Later, in Downton Abbey.
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  Words for the Day; please share

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  scutage:

  (in a feudal society) money paid by a vassal to his lord in lieu of military service.

  Sounds like the JW stand for men's military service in Mexico. I'm with you, Syl, on addendum!

  Liege, Belgium, with grave accent over e, rendering the pronunciation lee-ej