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Chris -- 2018-04-11
It could be no more than a spelling error, but if the users see the prefix ‘an’ as conferring the sense of ‘opposite,’ and allergy itself being, etymologically, ‘other, different, strange,’ ‘anallergy’ begins to mean showing some similarity, taking it into ‘analogy’ territory…
On the subject of the Soviets, they were brave indeed…the old British anallergy comes to mind…”Lions led by Donkeys”. ...
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And if the old guard still offend, They got nothing left on which you …... I’d rather have hayfever than lactose intolerance. Shit anallergy, I know. ...
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I really liked that, my dad can never tell me morals and stories normally and always has to use an anallergy like that. I think il tell him that and it’ll …
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I’ve seen the piccies – more of a shortbread then Victoria Sponge! – you didgustingly slim (ish ) litlle Madam!!! And if we carry on the anallergy – mine’s …
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Last edited by Peter Forster (2007-11-18 05:53:26)
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Have you heard or read Mellerdrammer, in place of Melodrama? I read it in a review of a play in Boston during the laye 1970s. The reviewer wrote that the play was a “meller.” I took me two days to realize what the reviewer meant.
Anallergy probably comes from the same dialect and the same sense of humor as Mellerdrammer.
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