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Old 12-10-2009, 4:33 PM   #1
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Default 'Stoozing... ready to enter the Oxford English Dictionary?' blog discussion
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Old 12-10-2009, 5:11 PM   #2
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if this becomes an addiction it would enter other forms of classifications and statistical manuals


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Is it stooz or stooze?
I always thought it was without the e, but the blog here includes it?
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Awful is like "wicked" but the other way round. Just like people more recently started using wicked as a cool way of saying something was good, people a longer time ago started using awful to mean something bad and so over time the meaning changed.


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