Two of today’s strips: a Rhymes With Orange and a Bizarro:
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Logo time!
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Two different uses of wish here: as a mental-action verb (‘They each wished that the other were dead’) and in a resultative construction (‘They each caused the other to be dead by wishing (in a wishing well)’.
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