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January 19th, 2010 admin

Isthmus. My new Rosetta Stone won’t help me much with that one. Putting together a quick trip to Panama, of course I happen on the word “isthmus.” “Isthmus” lives in Panama. But it is one of those words that likely you could go much of your entire adult life and never say out loud. Which is good,


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