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A cwm is a mountaineering term (or at least that is where I learned it) for a cirque, or a mountain basin. I think it might be Welsh, which would make sense, with their penchant for consonants.
Never heard it before....but Welsh sounds about right; they like to have one vowel for every 12 consonants. My father's middle name is Welsh; 4 l's, 1 y, and 2 e's: Llewellyn. Too many vowels! :D
 
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I am eliminating wine from my diet tonight to demonstrate solidarity with @cowgirl836

May abstain till Thursday!
I'll eliminate something to demonstrate solidarity with @cowgirl836 too.
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Hey, I'm reading a book right now, and that is the protagonist's name! No Country For Old Men.
And neither of us noticed I forgot to count the w. :D

We spent a day in Wales about 20 years ago. I've never seen so many unpronounceable words in my life. Street signs, stores, products...wow! The town we went to started with a C, and had about forty letters, but when pronounced was only 2-3 syllables. I gave up after that.
 
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I love meetings with no agenda. And then start late because they're doing another convo first. Cool. Not like my mom had to get up at 5:30 to drive up here and I had to get up early and juggle baby with DH to be at my computer on time. Totally cool. Thankfully I'm at home.

Welcome back to work!
 
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I've read several of Cormac McCarthy's novels - he's not easy to read. I read Blood Meridian and The Road. He creates some pretty intricate prose.
I kind of like his style of not using quotation marks during conversations between characters. The book itself is very good, so far -- seems to follow the movie fairly closely, but involves the characters' thought processes, which I like. I read "The Road" a couple times, as well as watched the movie. Very good, very dark.
 
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Never heard it before....but Welsh sounds about right; they like to have one vowel for every 12 consonants. My father's middle name is Welsh; 4 l's, 1 y, and 2 e's: Llewellyn. Too many vowels! :D
If there's one thing I learned from the movie "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain" it is that everybody in Wales has the last name of Jones.
 
This was very not Chaser-like. Was online checking delivery status of Onkyo receiver I ordered and the doorbell rings and it's UPS with the receiver. ;)

And nicely packed with a heavy blue plastic shrinkwrap that would protect it if it was left out in the elements. Impressed but Crutchfield is an ace kinda vendor.
 
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