brilliant! m level of annoyance with the wily nily use of a word whose origin i could only guess at caused me to finally look it up. so glad the sites are not blacked out due to the anti-piracy movement so that i could satisfy my curiosity.
i suspected that vet is an abbreviation for investigate..but almost answered my own query when i typed in google search and realized that i needed context lest my question appear to be a question about the abbreviation
for veterinarian! thanks for the human and the history lesson
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joyce barker:
January 19th, 2012 at 1:37 pm
brilliant! m level of annoyance with the wily nily use of a word whose origin i could only guess at caused me to finally look it up. so glad the sites are not blacked out due to the anti-piracy movement so that i could satisfy my curiosity.
i suspected that vet is an abbreviation for investigate..but almost answered my own query when i typed in google search and realized that i needed context lest my question appear to be a question about the abbreviation
for veterinarian! thanks for the human and the history lesson