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Word: kerrygront (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...securely describes herself as a beautiful woman, but she fears that people think she is dumb as well. She is forever polishing her English, syllabically going over new words again and again: "Edification, feasible, feeesible, sì? That will be feasible. Good." She has trouble with some names, like Kerrygront and Clargable, and she says Barbara Stan-wich as if it came between slices of bread. She orders "Scotch on the stones" because it still gets the laugh it got when she first made the mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: Much Woman | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

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