# Why isnt steel cast?

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> [@Lumpy](#):
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> I think “wheeze” to mean a joke or gag is mainly a British usage, as in Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes.

Well, British Isles, anyway, which accounts for Joyce being comfortable with it.

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