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|    James Dow Allen to All    |
|    Re: This word has 10 letters. namely: 12    |
|    05 Aug 25 12:10:48    |
      XPost: rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english       From: user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid              Here's a similar puzzle.       To make it difficult, I don't show word lengths              123456789ABCD - famous claim from philosophy              This phrase is obtained by concatenating five English words in this order:       * a small part       * a pronoun       * a word that occurs twice in a famous 1st stanza       * a verb with dozens of dictionary entries       * often appears at the end of a restaurant meal              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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