Sounds good to me re Malt Sam, particularly as single malts are CHEAPER over here, yes really. When I worked in London near Little Venice and and consequently Lord's was but a step away Middlesex had a batsman called Featherstone pronounced Featherstone. I would never say that Cholmondeley had three syllables under any circumstances whatever.
There once was a curate of Salisbury
Whose manners were quite halisbury-scalisbury.
He ran about Hampshire
Without any pampshire
Till his bishop compelled him to walisbury.
Chew on that. And while we are about it I have found a competition judged by two respectable people, Fleur Adcock and Michael Schmidt, with a set subject, a very old-fashioned sort of thing. And Fleur is a sucker for metrical verse, being a dab hand at it herself. I shall open a thread on it. She wrote a celebrated poem arguing that smokng was much less dangerous to women than sex. I'll bet you can google it.
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