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excellent

On-Yomi: カ

Elements:

excellent, person, ivy, square jewel, soil, dirt, ground, soil2, dirt2, ground2

Heisig story:

Person . . . ivy. To distinguish from excel (Frame 980), eminent (Frame 52), esteem (Frame 196), and exquisite (Frame 130), give the key word its own unique connotation.

Koohii stories:

1) [dihutenosa] 5-9-2007(138): Mr T wants to go to an excellent school, so he enrolls in Harvard, an ivy-league school.

2) [matticus] 29-10-2006(122): Bill and Ted are walking through medieval Europe when they see a humongous square jewel. "Excellent!" they both yell. But only after grabbing it do they realize it is chained to the neck of Mr. T, who grimaces angrily at them. "Bogus!" they cry, and totally run away.

3) [nilfisq] 12-9-2007(48): In Holland, when a person gives you an excellent mark for a test or an exam, he'll give you 10 out of 10 (10/10) and he underlines the numbers to emphasize your excellence!

4) [findus] 3-4-2008(31): The square jewel chained to the neck of Mr.T is what makes him excellent.

5) [ziggr] 30-12-2006(19): "Excellent!" said by Charles Montgomery Burns as he gloats over a captured P tied down with ivy (think Lilliputians and Gulliver).

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