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On-Yomi: ジュウ — Kun-Yomi: あ.てる、み.たす

Koohii stories:

1) [Katsuo] 10-11-2007(305): Scene at the baby factory: Manager: "Good news! Your infant has been allotted human legs". Parent to be: "Thanks a lot!".

2) [fuaburisu] 10-10-2005(40): An infant at the maternity ward is alloted a new pair of human legs, because his are not grown properly or absent. Picture the “lot” as a parcel, placed near the infant, to be used later. The “lot” of human legs has been alloted by some doctor, to be used later. Mnemonic “infant alloted new pair of human legs”. Note: to allot means to apportion by lots, it has the same root as the word “lottery”.

3) [smithsonian] 4-12-2006(29): Each infant gets its very own pair of human legs, allotted by God.

4) [BigAmish] 15-8-2008(22): In China, you are only ALLOTed one INFANT per family. My friends disagreed with that policy and HUMAN LEGGED it out of there!

5) [RobMow] 21-6-2009(11): God decided to allot each infant only one pair of legs.

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