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ndrosenOn Thursday, I attended an online meeting of USPTO Toastmasters, serving as Wordmaster, so I provided a word which people were supposed to use in their speeches; the word was pishogue, meaning magic, sorcery, a spell, and it is pronounced “pies hog,” according to an Irish-sounding speaker on YouTube.
The moral of this is that even someone who has a Ph.D. and got a perfect 800 on the verbal section of the Graduate Record Exam can improve his vocabulary by reading Barbara Hambly.
The moral of this is that even someone who has a Ph.D. and got a perfect 800 on the verbal section of the Graduate Record Exam can improve his vocabulary by reading Barbara Hambly.
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