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Listeners were diverted to hear him explain, in answer to a question about his personal life, that his pastimes included “middle-aged antics,” and they must have wondered what innocent japes--or perhaps amorous frolics--the old boy got up to, until they worked out that middle-aged was his very reasonable attempt at translating du moyen age (medieval), and that antics was his Gallic stress pattern for `antiques'.