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Good post, Melusine. Let's take the example that I gave, from LOTR: "You are no niggard, Eomer...(etc.)"[/i] If you edit it to, "You are no miser," or "no skinflint," etc., you completely lose the alliteration, which is one reason that I remember this line so vividly. We should not surrender the language to some soreheads' pettiness.
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