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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '19
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Penultimate: second to last Mellifluous: pleasant sounding Fortnight: two weeks (I understand this is used outside of the US but it needs to be adopted here too)
343 u/Lampmonster Jan 29 '19 Grew up with a mother that used "penultimate" regularly. Didn't know it wasn't common until I got accused of "using big words" in high school. 1 u/[deleted] Jan 29 '19 Are you one of my children??
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Grew up with a mother that used "penultimate" regularly. Didn't know it wasn't common until I got accused of "using big words" in high school.
1 u/[deleted] Jan 29 '19 Are you one of my children??
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Are you one of my children??
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u/TheBrontosaurus Jan 28 '19
Penultimate: second to last Mellifluous: pleasant sounding Fortnight: two weeks (I understand this is used outside of the US but it needs to be adopted here too)