I'd Like to Make an Apology to DUers

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9. Just read this in Garrison Keillor's memoir, "That Time of Year":

"Books became my family ... . I discovered Roget's Thesaurus, which opened up glittering pools of lingo, jargon, argot, patois, officialese, idiom, and phraseology of all sorts and made me feel like a scholar, sage, savant, well-armed to scuffle, skirmish, scrap, confront, and combat any scoundrel or rapscallion. The Darwins [schoolyard bullies] knew nothing about synonyms. Billy Pedersen and I vied for supremacy in the weekly spelling bee. I read the dictionary to study spelling, which got me thinking about words. Sausage has the word 'usage' in it: this interested me. Librarian contains a bra. There is a turd in Saturday."