Mary Julian of Glebe brings the blessedness: “I want individuals in pictures and ads would cease smiling. In Queen Victoria’s day, her photographers didn’t learn about smiling. Nobody confirmed tooth [Um, they’re British, Mary – Granny], however all of them regarded blissful sufficient. Identical with well-known Nineteen Twenties movie stars. Smiling hadn’t been found. Now it’s fairly tiring with advertisers selling steady happiness. And the one means one can get a house mortgage, purchase insurance coverage, purchase a automobile, get married, or transfer right into a retirement village, in actual fact, almost every thing is if in case you have very white tooth and a joyous smile.”
Channelling his inside Haruspex, George Manojlovic of Mangerton reckons he has the proof: “As soon as upon a time ‘pudding’ (C8) referred to the heart or entrails or the contents of different individuals’s stomachs when pierced with a sword. Seconds, anybody? Oh, and Philip Arber, sphairistike is pronounced t-e-n-n-i-s.”
John Lees of Castlecrag begs to vary: “It’s pronounced ‘sfee – ris – ti – ki’ and is from the Greek for ‘the ability of taking part in with a ball’. Recreation, set and match!”
Whereas we’re speaking pronunciation, Dave Williams of Port Macquarie has observed that “Resulting from a latest extra of rainfall, the quaint little city of Tombulgum hit the information but once more. Our native TV information service pronounced it as TOMbulgum, whereas I at all times thought it to be TOM BUL GUM. Can your readers please advise?”
“Thanks for revealing the true title of Alectura lathami (Brush Turkey)(C8),” says E. Mark Latham of Croydon Park. “I had thought he was a gobbler within the NSW Parliament.”
Clearly, George Zivkovic of Northmead is an authority on small-town incidents: “Right here’s one for bored viewers. Draw circles from the centres of fictional British detective present places (suppose Midsomer Murders (C8), Vera, Shetland, Unforgotten, Lewis, Broadchurch, Joyful Valley, Professor T, Scott & Bailey, Prime Suspect, DCI Banks, Inspector Morse, Grace, Bergerac, and so forth, and so forth) and see the place they overlap. That’s the place you’ll discover the useless centre of the nation.”
“My spouse was an ESL (C8) trainer within the years when boat individuals from Vietnam had been welcomed into Australia with some settling in our space once we had been dwelling in Wagga Wagga,” writes Ken Pares of Forster. “She has prompt that the brand new acronym EAL/D ought to have ‘Serving to’ in entrance, so they might all be HEAL/D. She is blissful to just accept fee for the thought.”
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