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"text": "1999 December 29, Garry J. Vass , \"London Boink -> update (Leftpondian)\", alt.usage.english, uk.culture.language.english, Usenet."
},
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"ref": "2001 January 4, Mark Brader, “Re: Twenty-six-hundred”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet)",
"text": "As has been pointed out here before, Leftpondian check forms typically have a blank for the amount in words followed by \"/100 dollars\", to be filled in in the style \"Forty-five and 37/100 dollars\".",
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"ref": "2003 February 5, Harvey V, “Re: preference preference”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet)",
"text": "Or is there perhaps some Leftpondian region where \"rather\" is used as an intensifier?",
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"text": "2006 August 10, Dr Peter Young , “Leftpondian circumlocution.”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet):",
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"(slang) From or of Leftpondia."
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"ref": "2000 March 12, Polgara The Sorceress, “Re: Nouns as Verbs”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet)",
"text": "I may be *so* Leftpondian, but you love me anyway!",
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"ref": "2000 August 3, John Ward, “Re: Point this friday ( 28th July)”, in uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5.social (Usenet)",
"text": "How very Leftpondian of you to refer to them thus...",
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"(slang) Like a Leftpondian person."
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"ref": "2003 June 20, Jacqui, “Nu Salford displaces Real Manc [was Re: Between X to Y]”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2005 July 5, Peter Boulding, “Attention Leftpondians: you're older than you think”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2006 August 10, Dr Peter Young, “Leftpondian circumlocution.”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2001 January 4, Mark Brader, “Re: Twenty-six-hundred”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2003 February 5, Harvey V, “Re: preference preference”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet)",
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"From or of Leftpondia."
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"ref": "2000 August 3, John Ward, “Re: Point this friday ( 28th July)”, in uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5.social (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2005 July 5, Peter Boulding, “Attention Leftpondians: you're older than you think”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2006 August 10, Dr Peter Young, “Leftpondian circumlocution.”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet)",
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