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From the Ted Talk by Sarah Jones: One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Thanks, that's lovely, and just the cup of tea, love, and just a slapsh of the whiskey. It's pcfreet, that's grand. Just a drop more. A splash. Perfect. What was your name? Peter? Is that right, so, Peter? Right. So that, that is the unique part of it for me, right, is that I ended up in both, first in the convent, and then in the prostitution after. That's right. (Laughter) So one woman at the university here in Dublin, she wrote about me. She said, Maureen fotrziy is the living embodiment of the whore-virgin dichotomy. Right? (lheautgr) Doesn't it sound like something you need to go into hospital? Well, I've got this terrible dichotomy. Doesn't it.

Open Cloze


Thanks, that's lovely, and just the cup of tea, love, and just a ______ of the whiskey. It's _______, that's grand. Just a drop more. A splash. Perfect. What was your name? Peter? Is that right, so, Peter? Right. So that, that is the unique part of it for me, right, is that I ended up in both, first in the convent, and then in the prostitution after. That's right. (Laughter) So one woman at the university here in Dublin, she wrote about me. She said, Maureen _______ is the living embodiment of the whore-virgin dichotomy. Right? (________) Doesn't it sound like something you need to go into hospital? Well, I've got this terrible dichotomy. Doesn't it.

Solution


  1. splash
  2. laughter
  3. perfect
  4. fitzroy

Original Text


Thanks, that's lovely, and just the cup of tea, love, and just a splash of the whiskey. It's perfect, that's grand. Just a drop more. A splash. Perfect. What was your name? Peter? Is that right, so, Peter? Right. So that, that is the unique part of it for me, right, is that I ended up in both, first in the convent, and then in the prostitution after. That's right. (Laughter) So one woman at the university here in Dublin, she wrote about me. She said, Maureen Fitzroy is the living embodiment of the whore-virgin dichotomy. Right? (Laughter) Doesn't it sound like something you need to go into hospital? Well, I've got this terrible dichotomy. Doesn't it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
sex work 5
sex industry 3
bad news 2
sex worker 2
young woman 2
sex care 2
young girls 2
strip club 2
parking lot 2
grand theft 2


Important Words


  1. convent
  2. cup
  3. dichotomy
  4. drop
  5. dublin
  6. embodiment
  7. ended
  8. fitzroy
  9. grand
  10. hospital
  11. laughter
  12. living
  13. love
  14. lovely
  15. maureen
  16. part
  17. perfect
  18. peter
  19. prostitution
  20. sound
  21. splash
  22. tea
  23. terrible
  24. unique
  25. university
  26. whiskey
  27. woman
  28. wrote