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Subject:Re: Marvel at my stupidity From:Joanne Tait <JTait -at- GA-IMAGING -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:56:38 -0400
S Elliot wrote:
As a ten-year-old, I thought Curly was singing about a surrey with
"highsy-class curtains you can roll right down." Nope, isenglass
curtains! Whatever the heck *they* are.
For the definitive discussion regarding isenglass curtains, check the
archives of Copyediting-L.
My husband (the king of malapropisms) says "to get one's ghost", "to hum and
haw", "hibbly-nibbly" (instead of higgeldy-piggeldy), and a half-zillion
others I can't think of at the moment. They do make me smile, I must admit.
