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Facts and Fancies for the Curious

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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Expectancy

A clergyman with a cough preached recently to an irritated congregation at St. Patrick’s, Dublin. The next morning’s post brought him the following communication:

’Tis passing strange when we reflect,
  And seems to beat creation,
That when “oration” we expect
  We get “expect-oration.”

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