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May 25, 2022
This week’s themeWords that sound dirty (but aren’t) This week’s words nudum pactum titubation twattle cock of the walk penetralia 
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with Anu Gargtwattle
PRONUNCIATION:
(TWAT-uhl)
MEANING:
noun: Idle talk; nonsense. verb intr.: To talk idly. ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps an alteration of tattle, of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1673.
USAGE:
“I refuse to listen to any more of this twattle.” Mack Reynolds; The Cosmic Eye; Wildside Press; 2020. “After all the lectures we five went to the canteen and twattled for a while.” Katie Khanna; Unanswered Questions; Partridge Publishing; 2016. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in
solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst
of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (25 May 1803-1882)
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