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* References: les risques du métier = work hazards; un écrivain = a writer; simultanément = simultaneously; plus rien = nothing left; kwen-say = pronunciation for "coincé" = stuck; pas de panique!
Savoir Vivre 2010
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I should get writer's block too, but when your dream is to put out a daily edition there is no time to be kwen-say* over a few words, be they French or English.
Savoir Vivre 2010
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According to the Miriam Webster dictionary, quean (pronounced kwen) is from the Old English cwene meaning woman or queen.
The Sable Quean (Redwall) by Brian Jacques: Book summary 2010
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*References: les risques du métier = work hazards; un écrivain = a writer; simultanément = simultaneously; plus rien = nothing left; kwen-say = pronunciation for "coincé" = stuck; pas de panique!
Savoir Vivre 2010
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I should get writer's block too, but when your dream is to put out a daily edition there is no time to be kwen-say* over a few words, be they French or English.
Savoir Vivre 2010
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'A gen-till-man the other day told me that only the peasants in Americay say Missus or Mis-triss, and that the riv-aire con-se-kwen-tilly was not
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