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    Yawp

    Learned a new word from Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal. On Meet The Press, she used the word "yawp".

    It is clamorous, rancorous speech.

    Cool word, like "bloviate". Fun to say, too!

    Ok, not as momentous a topic as others here, perhaps, but learning new ways to snark at politicians is at least tangentially on topic!

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    I don’t like it. Makes you sound like you have a southern accent which we all know knocks 15 points off the IQ. I don’t have any to spare
    "Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.

    don"


    Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas

    The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.

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    Had to look that one up at Merriam Webster:

    Definition of yawp (Entry 1 of 2)
    intransitive verb

    1: to make a raucous noise : SQUAWK
    2: CLAMOR, COMPLAIN

    Hunter
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