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    Johnson. (hiding)
     
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    Wrist (broke mine almost exactly 10 years ago on 7 December. Morriston effed-up the first op, had to go private in Llandough to have it sorted)

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    That's put me off my cornflakes.
     
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    Wrestling

    (who invented 'wr' to start a word?)
     
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    Grappling

    (Who invented wr - Jonathan Woss ?)
     
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    [ Many words starting with “wr” have to do with twisting, though not all. ... A prehistoric Indo-European root reconstructed as wer (meaning to turn or bend) is the ancestor of our words “wreath,” “writhe,” “wring,” “wrangle,” “wrench,” “wrinkle,” “wrist,” “wrest,” “wrestle,” “wrap,” and scores of others.]
     
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    Hook
     
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