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Interesting Words - Rogeting (aka cheating)

A lecturer at Middlesex university has identified a new trend of ‘Rogeting’ among students. Trying to outwit plagiarism checking software they are using a thesaurus to find synonyms for words.

(They aren't as clever as they think, because they have come up with some really stupid results. The best of which are:-

sinister buttock (instead of left behind)
to tarry fore of the conflict (instead of stay ahead of the competition)
bequest mazes (instead of legacy networks)



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