IF you didn't have two tin ears you would recognize the difference between "Gee and Haw" (driving commands) and "Hem and Haw" (a communication dysfunction). To assert it is correct to use one of these clichŽd pairings instead of the other--equally well-worn, and equally irrelevant to anything a hand--is the epitome of condescension and presumption on your part, an undue air, a self-centered furbelow, a frippery of ego, a patronizing sniff at the world. For fie. For shame. I rub my forefinger in your direction.


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