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Old 10-19-2008, 11:56 AM   #24
Sundae
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It's the one which needs least trimming to make it fit.
Anyway, why should there be a specific word for mixing different DNA?
There's no word for generic English mixtures, although we will smilingly admit we're mongrel because of the years of invasion.

Mulatto belongs in the years of quadroon and octaroon and such like, surely?
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