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Something Rhymes with Purple
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The Importance of Obedience
The word buxim is from the German beak-some, meaning you'll have this bendable, bendy, or pliable, or versatile. It was applied to the poor and the needy who literally had nothing. But because people tend to look down on the poor, it then became associated with kind of vice. And moral wickedness, which is pretty horrible. You know, a survey was done recently of the most liked words in the English language? Do you have a favourite word before I tell you what came top of the survey? Thunderplump. Gurry funge. Scurryfunge. Or halcyon.
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