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Something queer
Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.
A few weeks ago I finished reading Don't Let Her See Me Cry: A Mother's Story, an autobiography by a Victorian woman of the sort that ends "and then I wrote this book".
Anyway, I found it interestingly jarring the way she used 'straight' to mean 'person who is not a drug-user', rather the use I am accustomed to of 'person who is heterosexual'. Not new to me as such, but definitely not what I am used to. It was weird to see sentences like "As I drove away I couldn't believe that a 'straight' person seemed to be attracted to me!" Referring of course to her first relationship with another woman after being released from prison.
What was a new word to me was 'wangle', which I had initially taken to be a mispelling of 'wrangle', but apparently is actually a word.
So there you go.
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