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I did my degree in English/French Language/Linguistics back in the '70s, but I only got a middling grade, and I've worked in software development ever since, so I'm really only an expert on English language in the same way any articulate native speaker is.

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AINDERBY QUERNHOW (n.)

- any piece of readily identifiable anatomy found amongst cooked meat.

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