![]() Including in Sydney schools of the 1960s and ’70s, going by your responses. Dr Johnson’s influential dictionary of 1755 reversed that trend, though resistant pockets persist. ![]() Back when Shakespeare was learning to shave, the zed spelling prevailed. The spelling is American, I’d claimed, with a footnote. ![]() Leaving us with the final hot potato, the king’s divisive verb that lit the initial bin-fire: realize. My sloppy snipe at monarchy had almost toppled into anarchy. Linda Dessau is neither qualified nor remunerated. Whilst honorary, the word I’d chosen in a brain-fade, implies The Hon. The honorific belongs to office bearers of high distinction. ![]() Or to give the full viceregal pomp, The Honorable Linda Dessau. Linda Dessau is the Governor of Victoria. Unlike another confusable I’d used in my earlier column, referring to the letter’s addressee. That toasty sister would be no snugger had while been applied by the narrator, I’d argue. That said, the nuance has long dimmed in modern English. Technically, that exonerates the monarch and admonishes Sydney Transport. ![]()
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Our "Exquisite Corpse Adventure" works this way: Jon Scieszka, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, has written the first episode, which is "pieced together out of so many parts that it is not possible to describe them all here, so go ahead and just start reading!" He has passed it on to a cast of celebrated writers and illustrators, who must eventually bring the story to an end.Įvery two weeks, there will be a new episode and a new illustration. The game ends when someone finishes the story, which is then read aloud. An Exquisite Corpse is an old game in which people write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold it over to conceal part of it and pass it on to the next player to do the same. Ever heard of an Exquisite Corpse? It's not what you might think. ![]() ![]() While a lot of the info is out of date, like I said earlier, the stuff from the beginning to the 1950s plus the underground stuff make it a worthwhile read if you can get it for a decent price. The origin of the Old Witch from Haunt of Fear, a Barks Duck story, a story from Creepy, and a Steranko tale from Tower of Shadows are the standouts but there are a couple dozen more. Tons of stories are reprinted in their entirety in here. ![]() EC gets a chapter and the Wertham hysteria that led to the comics code and the death of EC gets another chapter. Lots of companies of the '40s and '50s are covered, not just Marvel and DC, as are underground comics. ![]() This book starts at the newspaper strips at the dawn of the newspaper boom through the present day of 1970. This came out in 1971 and is charmingly out of date in places, like when it's suggested Captain Marvel will likely never fly again and no mention of Stan Lee and Bob Kane taking credit for other people's ideas. Les Daniels, of course, wrote a few coffee table books about comics years after this. A few years ago, I found it at the used bookstore I always go to and snapped it up. 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