Re: Marvel at my stupidity

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.

Cheers, Joanne

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