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Fugitive Facts: Language

1. How do you spell Ki-yi-something-or-other that cowboys are always saying?
2. What does 'quid pro quo' mean?
3. What chores go with which days of the week?
4. What's the most frequent letter in the English language?
5. Wasn't a book written without the letter "e" in it?
6. How does that spelling rhyme go, "I before e?"
7. What does "Caveat Emptor" mean?
8. Who said or wrote, "I Didn't Speak Up"? And how does the complete quotation go?
9. How does that Irish blessing go that starts with "May the road rise to meet you"?
10. I'm looking for a poem that starts with "Do not stand at my grave and weep."
11. How does that famous "give a man a fish" quotation go?
12. What is the correct way to address a business letter to a person or persons of unknown gender?
13. What does it mean to put a "caboche" on something?
14. What is that catchy French phrase that means, "Let the good times roll"?
15. Who was Murphy of Murphy's Law?
16. Do you know the answer to the "GRY riddle"?

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