Hark to the locusts in their shrill armadas.
Locusts aren’t locusts. Locusts are cicadas.
To seals in circuses I travel on bee lines.
Seals aren’t seals. Seals are sea lions.
I’m a buffalo hunter. Want to see my license?
Buffaloes aren’t buffaloes. Buffaloes are bisons.
I’m too old to be pedantically hocus-pocused.
I’ll stand on the buffalo, the seal and the locust.
Ogden Nash on pedantry
Ogden Nash on pedantry
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. (Anything is more impressive if you say it in Latin)
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Re: Ogden Nash on pedantry
The plural of buffalo is buffalo, and bison bison.
But then what we have here is classic Nash. Now all I have to do is get this hook out of my pedant's mouth.
I used to read him all the time when I was a kid. I'm scarred for life.
But then what we have here is classic Nash. Now all I have to do is get this hook out of my pedant's mouth.
I used to read him all the time when I was a kid. I'm scarred for life.
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Re: Ogden Nash on pedantry
Nice!!
True ..oldness is the art of doing less.
Please help me . My spell-check will not advise me on how to spell "beurocrasy".
Has it been excised from the global dictionary?
(It was popular in my youth.)
Perhaps it is now a patented word "commercial in confidence": that demands a fee on use after permission?
True ..oldness is the art of doing less.
Please help me . My spell-check will not advise me on how to spell "beurocrasy".
Has it been excised from the global dictionary?
(It was popular in my youth.)
Perhaps it is now a patented word "commercial in confidence": that demands a fee on use after permission?
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Re: Ogden Nash on pedantry
It's "bureaucracy". Sometimes I catch myself having to remember how it's spelled, too.
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Re: Ogden Nash on pedantry
But the singular is buffalus.Nanohedron wrote:The plural of buffalo is buffalo..
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: Ogden Nash on pedantry
It's spelled "bureau crazy".Nanohedron wrote:It's "bureaucracy". Sometimes I catch myself having to remember how it's spelled, too.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. (Anything is more impressive if you say it in Latin)