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#459

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  Garland of flowers: talking flowers, Spencer’s Prothalamion, camellia, Surtees’ Jorrocks
  
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  Distinctions: instinct/intuition, meticulous/pernickety, delusion/illusion, sensual/sensuous
  
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  How to start writing each day
  
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  Double definitions: manifest, settle, riddle, sensation
  
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  “I wonder who’s kissing her now” (FM) / “It’s a long lane that has no turning”(DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 24-Dec-2004

27:167, 255787, S

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#462

#463

Series 37 (1987)

#468

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  Three of a Kind: invented names, Irishisms, terms involving horses, nouns before the adjective
  
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  Origins and derivations: all above board, curry favour, proposing a toast, on your tod
  
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  Graffiti the panelists would write
  
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  Poetic oddity: lines that use only “I” for vowels
  
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  “Count of Monte Cristo” (FM) / “Experience teaches”(DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 04-Feb-2005

26:45, 25088, S

#469

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  Meeting Places: Contracting for Johnson’s Dictionary, disputed barricade, second witch in Macbeth, Holmes meets with Dr. Stamford
  
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  Find the animal: camel, bison, deer, lion/otter
  
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  Choosing a different name: Hartley Winkby, Daisy, --, Trent Nugent
  
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  “Try a little tenderness” (FM) / “Silence gives consent”(DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 11-Feb-2005

KXOT-FM, 26-Jan-2008

27:35, 25862, S

#470

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  Three of a Kind: donkeys, grasses, indefinite articles, comparative standards
  
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  Posy of Prognostications: Endymion, Marx Das Kapital, talking pictures, Titanic
  
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  Feelings of Inadequacy: nursery rhymes, comic books, caterpillars in the kitchen, starting a clean towel
  
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  Verbal composites: spendthrift, killjoy, spitfire, breakneck
  
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  “Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner” (FM) / “What can’t be cured must be endured”(DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 18-Feb-2005

27:5329, 2612625938, S

#471

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  Unlikely Connections: Ruthless Rhymes/Coldstream Guards, Christopher Wren/last dodo, Trooper Cumberbach/Ancient mariner, Eric Little by Little/Montgomery
  
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  Origins and Derivations: at sixes and sevens, dress to the nines, grapes of wrath, conspiracy of silence
  
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  Newfangled nursery rhymes:
  
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  “Eureka” (FM)/ “Too marvelous for words” (DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 25-Feb-2005

KWAX-FM, 26-Feb-2005

KXOT-FM, 09-Feb-2008

287:5067, 26325096, S

#472

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  Regional Variations: children’s truce words, freckles, roof slates, left-handed
  
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  Differences: allay/alleviate, assuage/appease, solid/stolid, inescapable/ineluctable
  
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  Examples of Style
  
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  Definitely Definative: serendipity, ambergris, mnemonic, philander
  
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  “Rose of Washington Square” (FM)/ “The end justifies the means” (DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 04-Mar-2005

KWAX-FM, 05-Mar-2005

KXOT-FM, 08-Mar-2008

27:51, 26124, S

#473

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  Odd Man Out: forlorn hope, comparison are odious, soliloquy, types of window
  
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  Eponyms: macadam, grainger, mesmer, bowdler, galvani
  
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  Business References
  
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  Definitely Definitive: widdeshins, nubile, cochineal, giggle
  
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  “A room with a view” (FM)/ “And this is my beloved” (DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 11-Mar-2005

27:52, 26132, S

#474

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  Songs from the Shows: Here’s to the Maiden, When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly, It was a Lover and His Lass, Has Anybody Seen Our Ship
  
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  Four Cities: Paris, Oxford, Athens, Edinburgh
  
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  Verse to Fit Rhymes
  
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  Double Definitions: pool, digs, race, log
  
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  “Popocatepetl” (FM)/ “It’ll Be Alright on the Night” (DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 18-Mar-2005

28:06, 26352, S

#475

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  Night Poetry: The Night before Christmas, Aubade by Larkin, Byron’s So We’ll No More Go A-Roving, Longfellow’s Excelsior
  
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  Origins and Derivations: between the devil and the deep blue sea, taxi, on the nail, son of a gun
  
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  Stepping Stones: dog-sex, Roy Fuller-Harold Pinter, Henry-Cary, Billingsgate-East Lynn
  
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  Literary Animals: Hodge the cat, Flush the dog, Ricky Ticky Tavi, National Velvet
  
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  “An ill-favoured thing sir but mine own” (FM)/ “I think therefore I am” (DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 25-Mar-2005

28:02, 26283, S

#476

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  Golden Round: golden ass, golden apples, golden verses, realms of gold
  
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  Distinctions: equal/emulate, casuistry/sophistry, precise/punctilious, neurosis/psychosis
  
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  Rhymes: night-fright-puzzle-guzzle, joy-cloy-thunder-asunder, wet-debt-above-shove, portend-bend-larks-Karl Marx
  
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  Deceptive definitions: bijou, personalized/executive, indispensable, adult
  
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  “For whom the bell tolls” (FM)/ “Things that go bump in the night” (DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 01-Apr-2005

27:27, 25736, S

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  Odd Man Out: forlorn hope, comparisons are odious, soliloquy, fountain
  
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  Significant Surnames: Grainger, Mesmer, Bowdler, Galvani
  
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  Business References: Honest as the day as long, cook’s reference from Lucretia Borgia, thank you to the Borgias, a man of rare gifts
  
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  Definitely Definitive: widdishin, nubile, cochineal, giggle
  
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  “A room with a view” (FM) / “And this is my beloved” (DN)
  

MoD

27:52, 26132, S

#482

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  Unfavourable Reviews: Wuthering Heights, Milton, Hamlet, Remembrance of Things Past
  
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  Connections: namby-pamby/Gracie Fields, Aldous Huxley / John Whiting/Arthur Miller, sexual politics/frogs, Alexander Dumas pere/Franz Liszt
  
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  Highly adjacent: game-thorax-sofa, antiquated-obstruction- midwifery, string-pain-star, belly-beggar-interval
  
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  Opening Lines: Keats, O’Shaunessey, Wordsworth, Hopkins
  
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  “No man is an island” (FM)/ “Love is a many splendoured thing” (DN)
  

MoD

KALW-FM, 08-Apr-2005

28:00, 26251, S

#483

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  Vocabularies: abetting, juggernaut, plummet, martingale/ farthingale
  
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  Poets: Rupert Brooke, Yeats, Tennyson, WH Auden
  
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  Stepping Stones: Christmas-Lou Grade, steak and kidney-New Orleans, red-wine, Old Vic-Hampton Court
  
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  New meaning: Levels on the splonk, pubcaster, Donald Duck effect, one plus one
  
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  “Once more into the breach, dear friends” (FM)/ “I’ve got a little list” (DN)
  

MoD

KWAX-FM, 16-Apr-2005

28:04, 26323, S

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Formerly VII-51

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  Verses: G.K. Chesterton/The Rolling English Road, Dylan Thomas, Louis McNeese, John Betjeman
  
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  Pub Signs: Eagle and child, the dog and duck, the fox and grapes, Jack Straw’s castle
  
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  Neighbours: deluxe/delude/deluge, repository/repose / repossess, scratch/scrape/scrap, spotty/spouse/spout
  
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  Common prefix: mis-, pre-, ante-, mid-/over-
  
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  “Your eyes are the eyes of a woman in love” (FM) / “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (DN)
  

MoD

KIPO-FM,

KWAX-FM, 23-Apr-2005

28:01, 26275, S

#???

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  Verbal Vagaries: all the letters except “e”, all on the upper row of keys, palindrome, anagram
  
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  Origins and Derivations: pulling a leg, odour of sanctity, hoodwink, peter out
  
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  Differences of Opinion: arguing with a woman is like airmailing the Times in a high wind
  
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  Definitions: galumph, calisthenics, budgerigar, arsenic
  
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  “Round the World in 80 days” (FM) / “A little learning is a dangerous thing” (DN)
  

MoD

KWAX-FM, 30-Apr-2005

28:12, 26298, S

1966-7

ABC #221?

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  Vocabularies: eupeptic, chupatty, megalith, phagomania
  
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  Spy Novels: John le Carre, Helen McInnes, Ian Fleming, James Varla
  
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  Poems: Richard Barne, Lord Byron, Shakespeare, Thomas Hood
  
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  Opera: Il Trovatore, barcarolle, Die Fledermaus, Cosi von tutti
  
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  Marriage: Oscar Wilde, Diogenes, Hamlet, Oscar Wilde
  

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  “Old soldiers never die” (FM) / “There is a tide in the affairs of men” (DN)
  

JL

JL, (TS)

Mislabeled as MAS 010201

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fair, encoding artifacts

ABC #223?

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  Vocabularies: scree, ptosis, tonsure, isocracy
  
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  Lorna Doone, Hiawatha, Clara Piggety in David Copperfield, Tom Jones
  
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  Poetry: Harry Lauder, James Barrie, Shelley, David Garrick
  
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  Initials: AWOL, BASIC English, Euromart, Flak
  
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  Shakespeare: Antony & Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merry Wives of Windsor
  
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  “Wonders will never cease” (FM) / “Our fears do make us traitors” (DN)
  

JL

JL, (TS)

010216

good, earlier than WITF episodes?

ABC #226?

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  Vocabularies: misology, nocturne, sapid, kibe
  
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  Modern fiction: This Sporting Life, Edna O’Brien, Catch-22, The Carpetbaggers
  
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  Origins: fifth column, the cockles of one’s heart, antimacassar, dog in the manger
  
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  Plays: Cyrano de Bergerac, Private Lives, The Importance of Being Earnest, Rope
  
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  “All I ask is a tall ship” (DN) / “An ill favoured thing, sir, but mine own” (FM)
  

JL

JL, (TS)

010309

good, c. WITF episodes

ABC #228?

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  Vocabularies: gargoyle, napu, vinometer, stomacher
  
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  Rulers: negus, begum, nizam, shogun
  
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  Quotations: The Lady of Chalot, Pied Piper, Hiawatha, Charles Kingsley
  
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  Origins: The Marseilles, flirt, roue, tarred with the same brush
  
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  “Yes, madam, nature is creeping up” (DN) / “All things bright and beautiful” (FM)
  

JL

JL, (TS)

010323

good, c. WITF episodes

ABC #229?

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  Vocabularies: hypaethral, pawnee, cairngorn, durbar
  
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  Mums and Dads in Shakespeare: Katarina’s father, Romeo’s mother, Desdemona’s father, Hamlet’s mother
  
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  Origins: windfall, something up your sleeve, cross-grained, stuck up
  
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  Cuts: cut direct, cut infernal, cut sublime, cut indirect
  
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  Nouns of assembly: charm of goldfinches, skulk of foxes, stud of mares, leap of leopards
  
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  “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive” (FM) / “A stitch in time saves nine” (DN)
  

JL

JL, (TS)

010330

good, c. WITF episodes

before decimalization

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  Vocabularies: cedilla, bumpologist, cere cloth, crissive elephantine
  
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  Authors: W.S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads, Mikado, Pirates of Penzance
  
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  Odd Man Out: titles and authors
  
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  Initials: Cr, jn, n.p., sp.gr.
  

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  “Oh the little more and how much it is” (DN) / “When the hounds of Spring are on Winter’s traces” (FM)
  

JL

JL, (TS)

01-09-20

good, complete run out music

R7:

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  Vocabularies: macaronic, numbles, pragmatic, discobolus
  
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  Four of a kind: beggars or vagabonds, cycle of a four-stroke engine, four horses of Apocalypse, table tennis paddle surfaces
  
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  Second Lines: Oft in the stilly night, gather ye rosebuds while ye may, destruction of Sennacharib, Wordsworth
  
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  Miscellaneous divinations: sciomancy, astragalomancy, capnomancy, omphalomancy
  
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  “Henry the fourth, part one” (FM) / “For whom the bell tolls” (DN)
  

AF

PM, TS/PA

27:24, 25703, S

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  gizzard
  

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  Three Of A Kind: Cuddy/nirrup/Pronkers, Egyptian Finger/Mexican Whisk/Japanese Barnyard, Nickname /Newt/Apron, Billy O/Cat On Hot Bricks/Nobody’s Business
  
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  Predictions: Keats Endymion, Karl Marx Das Kapital, Talking Pictures, Captain E. J. Smith of the Titanic
  
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  Feelings of Inadequacy: lack of nursery rhyme books, comics, caterpillars as pets, can’t a start a clean towel
  
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  Verbal composites: spendthrift, killjoy, spitfire, breakneck
  
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  “Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner” (FM) / “What Can’t Be Cured Must Be Endured” (DN)
  

MoD

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  Unlikely Connections: Ruthless Rhymes/Coldstream Guards, Sir Christopher Wren/Nell Gwen/Last dodo, Trooper Silas T. Comberbech/Ancient Mariner, Eric Little by Little/Field Marshal Montgomery
  
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  Origins and Derivations: at sixes and sevens, dressed up to the nines, grapes of wrath, Julia Ward Howe, conspiracy of silence
  
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  Newfangled nursery rhymes: personbird fly away home, ride a gray mare to Banbury Fair, this little Thatcher went to market, queen was in the parlour eating brown enriched bread
  
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  A sentence with all the letters in it
  
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  “Eureka!” (FM) / “Too Marvelous for Words” (DN)
  

MoD

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34 years = c.1990

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  Phrases: levels on the splonk, pubcaster, Donald Duck effect, one plus one
  
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  “Once more into the breach dear friends, once more” (FM) / “I’ve got a little list” (DN)
  

MoD

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  “All My Possessions For A Moment Of Time ” (FM)
  

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  “Never Underestimate The Power Of A Woman” (DN)
  
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  “He Who Hesitates Is Lost” (DN)⁶
  
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  “Dirty British Coaster with a Salt Stained Smokestack” (FM)
  
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  “Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth” (FM)
  
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  “There’s Many a Slip ‘twixt the Cup and the Lip” (DN)
  
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  “See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have” (DN)
  
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  “If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On” (FM)
  
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  “There Are Fairies at the Bottom of Our Garden” (FM)
  
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  “Distance Lends Enchantment To the View” (DN)
  
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  “A Pun Is the Lowest Form of Wit” (FM)
  
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  “At Christmas I No More Desire a Rose” (DN)⁷
  
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  “Busy as a Bee” (FM)
  
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  “Oh Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming?” (FM)
  
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  “He Travels Fastest Who Travels Alone” (DN)
  
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  “Noel” (FM)
  
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  “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (DN)
  
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  “Parle Madame Muir” (FM)
  
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  “Anchors Aweigh” (DN)
  
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  “Tomorrow To Fresh Woods and Pastures New” (DN)
  
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  “A Source of Innocent Merriment” (FM)
  
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  “Six of One and a Half a Dozen of the Other” (FM)
  
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  “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime” (DN)
  

or later

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