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100 THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE American pay-day peanut pie (fruit) pitcher poorhouse post-paid potpie prepaid press (printing) program (of a meeting) proof-reader public-school quotation-marks railroad railroad-man rails rare (of meat) receipts (in business) Rhine-wine road-bed (railroad) road-repairer roast roll-call rooster round-trip-ticket rutabaga saleswoman saloon scarf-pin scow sewer shirtwaist shoe shoemaker shoestring shoe-tree sick sidewalk silver (collectively) sled sleigh soft-drinks spigot English wage-day monkey-nut tart jug workhouse post-free pie carriage-paid machine agenda corrector-of-the-press board-school inverted-commas railway railway-servant line underdone takings Hock permanent-way road-mender joint division cock return -ticket mangel-wurzel shop-assistant public-house tie-pin lighter drain blouse boot bootmaker bootlace boot-form ill pavement' plate sledge sledge minerals tap