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It's amazing how much more accurate the response is when I don't use my full name! Of course, maybe darcydodo really is my full name.

What swear word are you?
Full Name
Age
Your word of choice	Shit
Why you swear	You grew up hearing these words, they're part of your every day life.
Your motto	Wow, how'd you get you head so far up your ASS?!
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Oh, and in case anyone's wondering why I'm awake now when I was claiming earlier I was so tired, I did go to sleep... just, then I woke up. Normally jet lag doesn't happen to me in this direction.

Bad, bad Bill.

I was just looking at the excerpt from Bill Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words on Amazon, and I came across "admit to," which he says is incorrect. This did not seem right to me, so I went and looked in the OED. The OED says: "II.2.e. admit to (something): to acknowledge (a weakness, etc.); to confess to (doing or being something)." More to the point, that's the only case in which it admits that definition for "admit." (My usage here demonstrates what BB was presumably actually thinking of, but none of his examples was accurate for this case.)

If Bryson had his way and deleted those "to"s, we'd end up with Jesse Jackson allowing someone to father a child on a staffer, some other country raiding Angola with South Africa's permission, etc.

I repeat: Bad, bad Bill.