Talk:Tweedle-dum

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Needs attributive cites. --Yair rand 00:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Widespread use as above. DCDuring TALK 13:21, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Also lower-case use precedes Alice in Wonderland use. DCDuring TALK 13:36, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Great. Now what does it mean? --Yair rand 04:47, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee both pass with the meaning of "one in a pair of nominally different but practically identical things" — feel free to improve my wording. They also seem to have standalone meaning — look at the 2000 quotation for Tweedle-dum. — Beobach 01:47, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]