The other day my wife and I were sitting in the morning room
having our elevences of the usual coffee and chocolate biscuits
and reading the days papers, when all of a sudden she said,
‘I’ve just been reading the messages on your Armed-Guard site’.
‘Oh yes, I mumbled’
‘And’ she continued ‘in one the man spoke of his wife canning
tomatos, minus the e’
‘Well It’s like this’ I replied ‘ over there they don’t have their own
language and it’s taking time for them to get the hang of English,
especially where e is concerned and this has become known as doing
a Quayle’.
‘Yes I see’ she said ‘ perhaps also to make English easier for
the poor dears they dropped the u in a number of words?’.
‘Quite true’ I said ‘except for the intellectual minority who have retained
the u like Nasa for their spacecraft Endeavour’.
Bob Taylor
With apologies to our good friend Gerald Burr. And sorry to hear of
your Spinal Stenosis old chum, something like that must be a real
pain in the neck.
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