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<p>[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 31933, member: 669"]This whole discussion brings to mind the scene in Lewis Carroll's <i>Alice Through the Lookingglass</i> where Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice that when he uses them, words mean what he wants them to!</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually I have heard "cartwheel" used in all of the ways described here, although "cartwheel toning" as a description for tarnish is probably the least common of the three.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 31933, member: 669"]This whole discussion brings to mind the scene in Lewis Carroll's [i]Alice Through the Lookingglass[/i] where Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice that when he uses them, words mean what he wants them to! Actually I have heard "cartwheel" used in all of the ways described here, although "cartwheel toning" as a description for tarnish is probably the least common of the three.[/QUOTE]
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