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Penny war

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

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Speaker: Okay. Okay. Interviewer: Just so you know. Speaker: Definitely yeah. Anyways. Well grade twelve's always been anyways. But um yeah he did- he basically does penny-wars and he- I was um I got elected onto O-S-O this year and ah I had to be at the penny-wars like- like um ceremony thing. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And ah he tries to get people so pumped up for it but it usually- like it usually sucks. Like people usually just laugh at him. Like "Penny-wars! Whoo! I love penny-wars!"
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Speaker: Okay. Okay. Interviewer: Just so you know. Speaker: Definitely yeah. Anyways. Well grade twelve's always been anyways. But um yeah he did- he basically does penny-wars and he- I was um I got elected onto O-S-O this year and ah I had to be at the penny-wars like- like um ceremony thing. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And ah he tries to get people so pumped up for it but it usually- like it usually sucks. Like people usually just laugh at him. Like "Penny-wars! Whoo! I love penny-wars!"
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Um that- that as well sucks 'cause (laughs) my father- my father is really outgoing and he's very- he's very loud and ah it's kind of embarrassing once in a while 'cause he has this thing called penny-wars. I'd pretty sure.
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