... Most of the words that airline staff used, or rather most of the sentences into which they were habitually arranged, had been worked so hard that they had died. (Douglas Adams)

... Most of the words that airline staff used, or rather most of the sentences into which they were habitually arranged, had been worked so hard that they had died.

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