Apples and pears
A bit of mystery …
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Getting my exercise
While trying to see the forest and the trees …
Unexpected-issimo
Urban(e) …
T-V Mysteries
(Un)familiar territory …
Telephonic Correction
It all comes out in the wash …
Keeping me on my tippy toes
An historical exercise.
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Language mysteries
A small diversion before getting back to Gertrude Belle-Oudry.
Vn piccolo passo auanti
Prôuánô, a proouer, a tryer. Also to be prooued or tryed. Also obstinate, stiffe-necked.
From Florio’s 1611 Italian-English dictionary
Deriving me to distraction
A big small small face?
Bisarcipoltroncionacciosissimo
Or so you can pronounce it correctly, bisarcipôltrônciônacciôsíssimô.