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Uncle Remus, on the meaning of the word "vice-versa," thus enlightened some colored compatriots the other day: "I cannot desplain pezactly," he said, "so to meet wid your compredehension, but wiser-wersa am an propriation from de Latn, and means wuss and wuss and mo' of it. I members stumblin' ober it at colledge. It am a hard word to pronounce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VICE-VERSA. | 5/2/1883 | See Source »

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