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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1990
Page
15
A reader clarifies Hamlet’s nunnery line meaning a house of ill repute not a convent. Abby explains humongous derives from large or enormous, noting the term not in Webster’s Ninth Edition.
Retired secretary Santa Maria asks how to find elusive words in a dictionary. Abigail Van Buren notes newer dictionaries include humongous. Webster’s Ninth lists it, as does Random House’s unabridged with both spellings.
In Peoria the Hit the Trail for Quayle Club protests mockery of Vice President Dan Quayle. Thirty members draft letters to Carson Leno Sajak and Letterman arguing that media lampoons mislead the public. Club founder Dorothy Vallesio says critics overreact to harmless comedy.
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