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Re: Unusual or Memorable words (or language) in the Sherlock Holmes stories ?

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Subject: Re: Unusual or Memorable words (or language) in the Sherlock Holmes
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by: henh...@gmail.com - Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:58 UTC

On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 8:58:09 AM UTC-7, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
> happy B-day Doyle ! -- (May 22)
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> What are some Unusual or Memorable words (or language) in the Sherlock Holmes stories ?
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> for example...
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> one Unusual word that i had to look up was [outre].
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> [outre] means "Unusual"
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> “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
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> ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

how he (SH) says [Hello] is unusual or outdated.

i still can't start new threads

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