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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A baffling and potentially hilarious error…
All the day long positive boys and well-manured girls are here to feed your hunger in knowledge of Spanish habits and traditions in the chatroulet.
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For a person to come on another brands board and put down others for what one has chosen is very ill manured to me, as I have saw on several posts.
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... until first person testimony revealed that it was due to an unsupervised spell-check.
I’m an intellectual, articulate, down to earth, open minded, friendly, generous, clean, well dress, well manured (however not annoyingly so) woman/girl/friend/daughter/mother etc… (gotta love labels).
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Regardless, “well manured”. To hell with spell check. I forgot the “n” (mannered) and just spell checked it rather than corrected the mistake.
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Awesome. As these things usually go, “ill manured” is more eggcornical, but “well manured” is a whole lot funnier.
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‘Well manored’ makes a lot more sense (but for just that reason is not as amusing).
He is conciderate, well manored, didn’t tell me he doesn’t believe me, and told me how he could help me. He is gentle and mild manored.
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In El Salvador, where the contrast between the barefoot poor and the well-manored rich is extreme …
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,91 … 63,00.html
The older children seem to be well educated and well manored young adults …
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