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Old 02-19-2007, 05:39 AM
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Boring expository explanation yielding what appears to be actual facts but is really a terse command to look it up yourself.

Authorial chuckle followed by a shrug. Boring expository explanation about the term being related to an old child's game that turns words into dollar values (the letter "a" is worth a cent, "b" is two cents, etc. and that the value of the word is merely the sum of the values of the letters). A further lecture about how "ten-dollar word" merely means a LONG word.
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