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  • Kendalle is a pop metalinguist and is not the owner of the backpack of her dreams get her more pockets and kittens!

    Al Baio: Dreamin' of the Usual: A Backpack! Al Baio 2011

  • Kendalle is a pop metalinguist and is not the owner of the backpack of her dreams get her more pockets and kittens!

    Al Baio: Dreamin' of the Usual: A Backpack! Al Baio 2011

  • A veritable polymath and metalinguist, Trefusis is distinguished by his very liberal social outlook, his propensity for old-fashioned phraseology, and his curious use of the non-sequitur as greeting (e.g. "Hugely so to you all").

    Language Log 2009

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