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Chris -- 2025-05-10
When one washes ones clothing, wrings it out and leaves it to dry that way, the clothes are going to come out all wringled, right?
I love to have pants for the office such as these stain and wringle resistant.
Buy only wringle free pants and shirts and roll them in a back pack that fits on your rear rack.
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My guess is that this is in some degree a recuperation of the old structure: wrinkle is doubtless related to wring via the frequentative suffix – le , much as dribble is related to drip , or sparkle to spark .
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(If so, it is noteworthy that the voicing contrast is backwards from what would be expected: you would expect the word-final case to be voiceless [ wrink ] and the word-medial one to be voiced [ wringle ]. There may be a few other cases, e.g. if waffle is paired up with wave , for instance.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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