The Adventures of Leslie Moore, Linguist -- SUFFIXES

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meanINGFULLY

helpFULLY

feckLESSNESS

categorICALLY

atoneLESSNESS

loveLINESS

gallINGLY

loneLINESS

youthFULNESS

linguistICALLY  (4 stanzas, a 'brief saga')

Authors' Note: The Yiddish loanword bupkes literally means "beans", but is figuratively applied to items or concepts that are worthless.

Authors' Note: For more than a decade, the author of this verse has routinely taken a bedtime dose of alginate, a seaweed-derived product useful as an adjunct in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux.

Authors' Note: Leslie Moore is an academic linguist who has acted as an inspirational muse in almost a dozen of Giorgio's recent verses. Leslie Moore's lifestyle choice of rejecting the world of IT has gotten her into some difficulty, bringing accusations from her colleagues of incompetence.

Authors' Note:  Until this minute, Giorgio had apparently not even heard of Leslie's cousin Vic.

Authors' Note: Readers are reminded of the key role of the word sorry in the Canadian vocabulary.

Authors' Note: The dove is often used a symbol of peace or pacifism; contrarily, the hawk is used as a symbol of those with a propensity for war or violence.

"An iron fist (hand) in a velvet glove" is a well-known idiom portraying hawks who hide behind a more dove-like appearance or demeanour.

(Note that the four stanzas of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

Editors' Note: Leslie has asked us to point our readers to a much  earlier verse written by one of her mentors, "clannishlessness"

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