Through the Brier
27/03/09 @15:04
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For distorte it’s redoubtable. For me it’s:

nonplussed

Googling it often won’t help you, though. In an dastardly scheme to nonplus the rest of the world, we Americans have begun to use the word in a sense nearly opposite its formal meaning.

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    For distorte it’s redoubtable. For me it’s: nonplussed Googling it often won’t help you, though. In an dastardly scheme...
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    I redoubt it! But seriously: in elementary school, I always had to sit at the Redoub Table.
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