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“Two amalgum”. What does this expression mean?

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“Two amalgum”. What does this expression mean?

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The poet deliberately misspells the word ‘amalgam’ as ‘amalgum’. She wants to emphasise in an amusing way that there were two cavities beneath her teeth which the dentist was to fill with amalgam-a mixture of mercury and another metal used for such purposes.

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