
Ep. 87: A fraught episode
The Pillar Podcast
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Is That a Word?
I'm not denying that combustuous is a word, I am saying the correct and perfectly ordinary idiomatic usage to describe exactly what I'm describing. If you don't like a turn of phrase, as far as your concern, it doesn't exist. No one has ever used it before. It's totally calling it a century. 400 years. You're not. I've shown you usages going back through speeches of the 20th century in Churchill and it appears in Shakespeare. Just to keep this fellow. This is another example of your weird little personal obsessions where what the rest of the world says and knows perfectly well, you've decidedyou don't like.
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