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#1 2007-06-23 09:45:12

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1258

"wade down" for "weighed down"

Wading is essentially a fairly slow and careful way of moving through relatively shallow water. Perhaps the effort involved and the tediously slow progress lies behind this unusual substitution – it certainly doesn’t seem to be just a mis-spelling. I can find only two examples:

The first bit was well done(first 10 pages) and then you were wade down by Infomation and codes that you could never remember. ...
www.amazon.co.uk/Airframe-Michael-Crich … 0099556316 – 71k – Cached

It also has a bus station and a taxi facility so when you’re wade down with shopping,travel is convenient. There are a substantial number of disabled spaces …

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