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12:41am
April 26, 2014
Okie problem #428
Not realizing until your twenties that waller is spelled wallow. Creating a strange division in your head where waller is what pigs do in mud, and wallow is what people do in self-pity, and they can’t possibly be the same word? Because words you learn from reading, and words you learn from talking, don’t sound or spell the same.
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