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Old 12-03-2009, 05:59 PM   #21
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Oh, yeah. That's the kind of Q about which I was talking also.

As for the "s" thing, that's always so funny to me, because a lot of the time, you can pronounce the "s" as "f" and it sounds roughly the same.

For instance:

Yef. That'f alwayf fo funny to me, becaufe a lot of the time, you can pronounce the "f" as "f" and it foundf roughly the fame.

You have to read it in context, though, of courfe.
I read a facsimile of the original English edition of Antoine Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry. It got pretty raunchy when he wrote about a vacuum sucking air out of a tube!
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Old 12-03-2009, 06:07 PM   #22
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*gasp* That's always a possibility. The one that I think of most is the illustration in C.S. Lewis's "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" for a cure for warts:

"Wafh in a filver bafin by moonlight."
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