Untamed English

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“He had never really mastered English, but he’d studied enough to have a healthy fear of its random severity, the senseless brutality of its conjugations; it was unpredictable, like a cross-bred dog.” 

—Pasquale Turis, character in novel by Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins (2012).

• Editorial Comment: “Woof!” she opined.

 

PeezPIX by Ted Pease

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This Classic WORD is repurposed from March 2015. Those were the days.

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