| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
I was wondering why there was no note on Wodehousian English.
The playing with words is fantastic in most of them.
The first one that comes to my mind is from a short story called
"Lord Emsworth & Girl Friend" where a conversation between Lord
Emsworth and the Girl Friend ( a girl of eight, I think) is recorded.
Girl: Ern (I think that is her brother's name) is wearing hair oil
today.
Emsworth: Hmmm
Girl: For the feet.
Emsworth: (stony silence)
Girl: At the pork.
For the benefit of those who did not follow
Read 'feet' as 'fete' and pork as 'park'.
Anyone remember any other classic Wodehouse excerpts?
Sai.
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Not off the top of my head, but I've noticed that the bookstore
in the United terminal at Logan has a good selection of Wodehouse.
These are just right for an airplane flight--the right length and
the right level of difficulty.
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