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Mr. Tulip's favourite syllable. This conveys a lot of very specific meaning in one small space, as in


It's an instrument for -ing young women!

Is it? I thought it was a kind of piano.

It also has its uses in polite discourse when one does not want to have to completely spell it out.

Reference Love In A Canoe Coffee and Sna-Fu, where an -ing needs to be hazarded to convey the derivation of the phrase, without turning the Wiki blue.

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