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Re: another mildly otr related dream/weird e-mail
In a message dated 12/8/98 8:39:09 PM EST, RBGockley at aol_com writes:
> > > now for the useless trivia department:
> > > what's special about the word dreamt?
> >
> > i'll bite.
> >
> > i don't know, unless it has to do with the mt.
> >
> > do tell.
>
> yup, that's it. as far as i know, dreamt is the *only* word in the english
> language to end with an mt.
>
> but then, my useless grammar trivia has been proven wrong before...i coulda
> sworn "orange" had no rhyme, but according to the "ask marilyn" column a
while
> ago, "sporange" is a perfectly acceptable word, and it just so happens to
> rhyme with orange. (sporange, though, isn't in my websters...though
> sporangium (synonomous with sporange, according to miss von savant)
is...oh,
> well.)
>
> --rachel.
she's supposedly the smartest person in the world, right? obviously according
to someone who has never met the middle gockley girl.
love,
sha