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On 04/01/2014, at 10:07 AM, Max Richards wrote:
> some of us, Bill, are superannuated, a more general word, it seems.
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> Have you noticed how many people in Australia and NZ say ashphalt for asphalt?
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> An older oddity than vunerable…
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> Max
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> On 04/01/2014, at 9:48 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>> Thanks, L, P, M. Bitumened is better, I think. More concise in the mouth and stronger sense of being reduced to tar.
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>> 'Blasted', Pat, does give the sense of vanquishment but the roadiness is lost. Interestingly, if the poem were read in Tasmania, it would be pronounced 'bitter-minned' as opposed to 'bitchew-minned'.
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>> Max, are we all superannuant poets?
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>> B
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>>> On 3 Jan 2014, at 11:38 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Would not "bitumened" do it? I mean as well as "bitumenised" but less of a
>>> mouthful. I'm not sure it's better in any other way L
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