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Thread #25235 Message #295807
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
12-Sep-00 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mangling the English Language
Subject: RE: BS: Mangling the English Language
Littlehawk, "bodacious" and "hellacious" are words of almost ancient vintage in American speech, and it seems to me came about NOT because of an effort to simplify but to inject life and energy into speech. Which they do.