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Once this verb applies to loons. Twice it's much more melodious. What
is it?
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on 8/31/2012, Jerry Friedman supposed :
> Once this verb applies to loons. Twice it's much more melodious. What
> is it?
Is this a registered question, or is it more clumsy than that?
/dps
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Who, me? And what lacuna?
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Ding, as in Chav slang. Ding-ding the sound the slot machine would make if you won.
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On Sep 1, 1:25 pm, Snidely <snidely....@gmail.com> wrote:
> on 8/31/2012, Jerry Friedman supposed :
>
> > Once this verb applies to loons. Twice it's much more melodious. What
> > is it?
>
> Is this a registered question, or is it more clumsy than that?
Is "more clumsy" clumsier than "clumsier"?
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Jerry Friedman wrote on Fri, 31 Aug 2012
>Once this verb applies to loons. Twice it's much more melodious. What
>is it?
I was led to the Canadian one and two dollar coins, apparently the
"loonie" and "toonie", but can't verb them.
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Iain Archer
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On August 31st, Jerry Friedman Totally Officially noted:
>Once this verb applies to loons. Twice it's much more melodious. What
>is it?
Wail (-> Wales)?
Cheers - Ian
(BrE: Yorks., Hants.
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"Jerry Friedman" <je...@totally-official.com> wrote:
> Once this verb applies to loons. Twice it's much more melodious. What
> is it?
bidi bidi bum - chanting?
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In alt.usage.english, msh210 wrote:
>On August 31st, Jerry Friedman Totally Officially noted:
>> Once this verb applies to loons.
>
>Or, more precisely, a loon. Vide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon >
>> Twice it's much more melodious. What is it?
There's a somewhat raucous popular beat combo called Dive Dive. Perhaps
today's youngsters find that sort of thing melodious.
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VB
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On 04/09/2012 18:51, Ian Noble wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:09:31 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Friedman
> <je...@totally-official.com> wrote:
>
>> Once this verb applies to loons. Twice it's much more melodious. What
>> is it?
>
> Wail (-> Wales)?
>
That must be worth at least a smallish lamb.
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Katy Jennison
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It must be "dive" that the loon does. The plural "Dives" is the rich
man, but I don't find it very melodious.
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James
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On Sep 4th, James Hogg abed:
> > > > Once this verb applies to loons. Twice it's much more melodious. What
> > > > is it?
<snip>
> It must be "dive" that the loon does. The plural "Dives" is the rich
> man, but I don't find it very melodious.
Thank you!
The scientific name of the Melodious Blackbird is Dives dives.
Michael Hamm
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No, indeed. Odious, maybe. What am I missing?
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Katy Jennison
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Thanks. It's not known in these parts. So the answer is "dives" and
"Dives Dives" rather than my "dive" and "Dives". I'm kicking myself for
not thinking of a reduplicated species name. I got no further than the
melodious bulbul.