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		t-3 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All Kindles can now be jailbroken I've also seen the spelling used in old westerns, which I just so happened to be reading in jail.

wink 5 months ago [–]

Non-native speaker here and I learned the word gaol from some fantasy literature only a couple years back.

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