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On-Yomi: ネイ — Kun-Yomi: むし.ろ

Koohii stories:

1) [rtkrtk] 31-10-2007(236): A pretty tough kanji. Think of elegant old housewives with English accents dining together at a HOUSE party. The hostess brings out a dish of hors d'oeuvres: a SPIKE of metal with an EYEBALL and a HEART skewered on it. Upon being offered this treat, one of the housewives says in her English accent, "I'd RATHER not.".

2) [saranich] 25-3-2006(235): Rather a house with a heart than an eye with a spike.

3) [sgrant] 8-11-2008(63): Did your parents ever tell you that home is where the heart is? Maybe that's because they want to keep an eye on you. They'd rather you were inside, than on the streets. Sadly, crack doesn't sell itself.

4) [Samsara] 3-9-2008(43): I'd rather die peacefully in my house from a heart attack than from a spike in my eye.

5) [scottamus] 9-3-2006(42): Picture a racist railroad foreman from the days when the wild west was being tamed. "I'd rather be at my house eatin' and drinkin' my way to a heart attack than watching these slanty eyed Chinese immigrants hammering railroad spikes".

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