Just that it's not as if anyone would have been compelled to duplicate my actions because of its quality.

Jul 23, 2005

I give you the Box-Scavenger's Creed:

Is there aught that can protect a dumpster from your depradations?

There is naught.

If there are how many boxes in it will a dumpster be spared?

If there are nought.

Are there any more homophones remaining?

There are not.

Comments

on 2005-07-23 20:57:19.0, ac commented:

In Yorkshire they say "nowt". Which is not to be confused with "summat".

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and, further, on 2005-07-23 21:12:19.0, ben wolfson commented:

For "naught" or "nought"? I guess it doesn't make much mind since the one's a variant of the other. In fact, forget I posted this.

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and, further, on 2005-07-23 21:38:55.0, ac commented:

I cannot; it is stamped on my memory forever.

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and, further, on 2005-07-23 23:42:32.0, eb commented:

You seem to have left one knot still untied.

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and, further, on 2005-07-24 6:58:27.0, ben wolfson commented:

Damn!

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and, further, on 2005-07-24 19:25:13.0, tammy commented:

Dude, it's only the Californian lacunae in your vowel space that lead you to the misapprehension that "nought" and "not" are homophones.

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and, further, on 2005-07-24 19:31:05.0, ben wolfson commented:

Surely you don't maintain that it ought to be pronounced "nowt" in General USAian.

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and, further, on 2005-07-25 10:21:39.0, tammy commented:

Not "nowt" [nawt], but with that backwards c in IPA, which I don't know how to reproduce here. Rhymes with "caught," both to me and to you.

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and, further, on 2005-07-25 11:04:01.0, ben wolfson commented:

Hmm... I'm not sure if I think "not" and "caught" rhyme. Anyway, it makes sense that I'd have lacunae in my speech, since I did grow up in the same county as Lacuna Beach.

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and, further, on 2005-07-25 0:55:04.0, tammy commented:

Ah yes, Lacuna Beach—the epicenter of the one-vowel accent.

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and, further, on 2005-07-25 0:56:58.0, tammy commented:

Also, you have to be careful where you step there. Sometimes there's just pieces of ground missing.

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and, further, on 2005-07-25 13:07:25.0, ben wolfson commented:

You also have to be careful where you look, as there are plenty of blue-hairs wearing incunabular swimming suits.

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