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vis-à-vis

On-Yomi: タイ、ツイ — Kun-Yomi: あいて、こた.える、そろ.い、つれあ.い、なら.ぶ、むか.う

Koohii stories:

1) [dingomick] 11-9-2007(205): When sitting vis-a-vis, Scots will glue their kilt down to avoid embaressment.

2) [laxxy] 8-10-2006(81): This is a character that is used in Japanese for "vs." (as in, "Alien vs. Predator").

3) [ergerg] 2-6-2006(45): This isn't plaid, it's tophat and sheaf. In the tophatted wheat cutting competition, one contestant gathered more sheafs than anyone else, he had an advantage vis-a-vis the rest because he had glued his tophat on, everyone else's hat kept coming off.

4) [fiminor] 8-4-2007(33): The word vis-a-vis is like sentence glue, it kind of joins sentences together.

5) [netsplitter] 15-12-2008(21): Wolverine has to glue a top hat to his head when sitting vis-a-vis on a train so no one recognizes him.

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