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Tova:
You just reminded me of an awful joke I heard as a kid.

If tinsel is made out of tin, what do they make foghorns out of?

Kugai:
If Nuns live in a Nunnery,, then what do Monks live in?



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Tova:
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Akima:

--- Quote from: Cornelius on 18 Aug 2017, 01:37 ---Well, that would be because English - via old French - actually borrowed two Latin words, but writes them in the same way:

* Vice, n.: moral fault, from vitium: defect, imperfection
* vice-, : deputy, assistant; from vice, abl. of vicis: change, turn
--- End quote ---
British Commonwealth spelling makes this even more confusing because what Americans would call a vise is spelled vice. So you could correctly write: "Was it a vice for him to squeeze the vice's head in a vice?"

TheEvilDog:
English language, go home. You are drunk.

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