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adj.   Having the character of water in the lungs due to mono.

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Re^3: My favorite silent English letter is:
by wrog (Friar) on Mar 01, 2012 at 01:15 UTC
    I'm pretty sure that's still pneumonic

      Did you work at Sikorsky in the 1980s? It seems to have been the preferred spelling there, to the point of my being admonished for using the correct spelling after showing them the entry in the dictionary


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        No.

        And now I'm wondering,... how does the subject of water in the lungs even come up at a helicopter company?