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vocabulary
I thought I had a pretty good vocabulary until I went to the Great Lakes regional. It shounded to me like The Announcer kept calling a tether..a "probiscus"
For those who wondered, but not enough to bother looking it up, here is the definition - straight from The Random House Dictionary.
Pro.bos.cis, n. 1. The trunk of an elephant 2. Any long flexible snout
Apparently pronounced with a soft c. That is, probosis, accent on the pro
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Last edited by Chief'sDad : 24-03-2002 at 21:33.
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