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A Perfectly Good Verb

A Perfectly Good Verb

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Pat Whitty
Oct 02, 2023
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It was a good verb. It had a single use with a clear meaning that described a most pleasurable act. It was like a sacred word that could never be uttered aloud in public. God forbid that it would ever be used by a teenager in front of parents. Then it all changed. Somehow this verb morphed into a Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Preposition, Conj…

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