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| | The Morning News - Tricks of the Trade, by Matthew Baldwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | What if the kids are hating it? And the clown revealed a fascinating trick of the birthday clown trade: Every year, it seems, there are two or three funny words that invariably crack kids up, and when things are going sour, you can blurt one out and bring the house down. |
 | | Wondering if there were more of these, I recently asked readers for their tricks of the trade,; and was amazed by the response. |
 | | Sometimes, if a word can’t really be pronounced backwards, a couple of letters will be traded around (e.g., tish for shit), or the first letter might be pronounced separately (e.g., bmal is pronounced beemal). |
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