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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by war1025 on Saturday October 03, 2020 @11:27AM (#24672633)
I assumed the "mad" part was just some archaic term.

Curious whether it does actually mean something or if it is just a typo.

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by jccooper on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:32PM (#24674820)
It's just a typo. The original has "made". I was expecting the text to be a bit more corrupt, but it looks clean and is probably not an OCR type, but a normal human one.
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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by dan-robertson on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:18PM (#24674743)
It’s listed as a form of made in the OED but without any examples close to the 19th century. Webster has this spelling.
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