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Old 03-05-2017, 10:28 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
Thanks to you all. I suppose it could be used as a teasing endearment.
From the phrasing of the quoted sentence, my guess follows this line of thought. It could either be a "nickname" of someone making the sentence something like: 'As for what my excessively outspoken mother says, and so wisely...' or it could be something where an author's name is used as a stand-in for the full title of a reference book, as we commonly do when we say "look it up in your Webster's".
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