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40a - A_O_O_ _ _I_ acknowledging failure

41d - _ _ O _I_I_M - alien character -is there such a word as exoticism?

thank you, I can get on with the day's business now

Anna - in case I need to clarify my posting about the googling of tayberry, it wasn't a 'get at' you for not doing it, it was a reference to me simply checking that it existed - I hadn't previously heard of it.

Try exoticism and apologetic