Thread: July 5, 2012 - Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
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Old 07-07-2012, 11:44 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by Flint View Post
tenterhooks?
Here we say tenderhooks (tender-hooks, tender hooks), which is a corruption of tenterhooks the Brits use.

edit - spell check wanted to change tenderhooks to tenterhooks.
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