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Thomas Dewey Eliza Doolittle

Happy Birthday!

Rhoda Mapp Charles Atlas Arnold Schwarzenegger

John Doe Johnny Cash Miss Moneypenny

Tex Ritter The Heavy Hitter Julio Bashmore

Nils Bang Ti Fock Dick Oatts

Derry Irvine Christina Foyle Ray Smith

Was that me?...anyway, a wonderful book. I've just finished my first novel of his: which I didn't enjoy nearly as much. Try this one:

I'll never forget their boppish theme tune! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkX0X7kHpHA

Alan Hare Mike Comer Bill Haley's Comets

The Disappeared The Vanishing Corporal Private Ryan

This Little Piggy Count Basie Le Duc Tho

Francis Bacon Danish Ali NHOP, The Great Dane

Of what....those left standing? Greatest living poet in the English language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hill

Paul Moer Lorna Doone John Graas

Emeric Pressburger Emo Philips Rod Hull & Emu

One of the greatest of our times. Does his passing leave my one-time university tutor Geoffrey Hill as the undisputed king?

Eskimo Nell Bob Berg

Donald Trump Hugh Smellie Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly

Blue Lou Lew Tabackin

We won't mention "keep your pecker up".

Son House A E Housman A Shropshire Lad

Spotty Muldoon Lorna Doone Frank Herbert

A British news item today has been words appearing for the first time in a new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/28/omnishambles-new-words-oxford-dictionaries http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10270160/Take-a-selfie-while-twerking-If-you-dont-know-what-this-means-youre-a-linguistic-luddite.html I'm wondering how many of these are shared with/already current in the US. My daughter, who works for an American company in London, uses "expense" as a verb, as in "I can expense this", meaning "I can claim this on expenses". Is this usage current in the US? I've never heard it before.

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