I'm Going to Have a Little Rizzle, if You're Feeling Slumberous

lexicographers look at words which are used alongside the word that you're looking at. I'm having a lite rizzle means i merly aldos gadosit so i am looking to see why it's forty. To hoodwink somebody was to put a hood over their heads so that their eyes were forcibly closed. So that's what wink first meant in old english. See, i don't think there's anything particularly significant about forty. An used a bit like umpty used to be. In mors's code, umpty was an indefinite number. And so 40 winks, if you remember, to wink was originally to close your eyes completely, not just to

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