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Official Embargo of 'Should' from Poets' Lexicon Applaude

Should shouldn't should so much should it?
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:47 am
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What about "mun't"?
...and I think there's another one....
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:03 am
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...ah yes. Wun't.
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:04 am
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'bunt'

1.(of a goat or calf) to push with the horns or head; butt.

2. Baseball . to bat (a pitched ball) very gently so that it rolls into the infield close to home plate, usually by holding the bat loosely in hands spread apart and allowing the ball to bounce off it.

3. Nautical . the middle part of a square sail.

4. A smut disease of wheat in which the kernels are replaced by the black, foul-smelling spores of fungi of the genus Tilletia.
(Also called stinking smut).
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:34 pm
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Steven, some of your 'shoulds' should have apostrophes, surely? And the common comma should certainly show something of itself, should it not?
Would adding a little hesitation to each 'should' help to apportion blame?
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:44 pm
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Julian,
I dun't know.
Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:33 pm
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Well, in these here parts... one ought to, had better, have a duty to, be duty-bound to, must, have to, shall be obliged, obligated, compelled, required, coerced, AND forced to do things that they may have otherwise been told they should : )

p.s. I have a lovely pink vase that is NOT for sale - suitable for blossoming flowers.
Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:50 pm
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