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I didn't want to mention it at #6 for fear of spoiling someone's fun, but I guessed at the meaning of Uncle Arthur from the very common mispronunciation of arthritis, pronounced as VinnyD shows it at #9.

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Did any of you take the other quizzes at the bottom of the page? I found the Volume I-III quiz particularly difficult. It came down to three adjectives I didn't know, that I had to keep rearranging until I got it right. But arigato as US dialect? Hawaii, maybe?

I know arigato (I once had a cat named R. E. Gato) but I've never heard it used in English.


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Can't do it on an iPad, apparently. I'll check them put later.

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Thanks Vinny, I had not seen the arthritis-Uncle Arthur phonetic connection but it makes sense now.

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That was the first one I got, after vamoose.

In 1-3, I got "leppy" and "mouse" wrong way about but guessed the others OK.
"nebby" was easy cos "neb" or "nib" is "nose" in Scots Doric. The others just seemed to make sense, perhaps because of the word type. You could imagine a "kiss-me-quick" being a sudden rise in the road.

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