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Consider this classified ad from Ruth Sparrow, a 55-year-old woman who was $20,000 short for a needed gallbladder operation, which ran in the May 17, 1997, St. Petersburg Times under "medical supplies": "KIDNEY--Runs good, Taking offers.
Thus a Dame Jeanne (a big fat-bellied bottle) became a demi-john in English, “God encompasseth us’ became the Goat and Compasses , and the girasole (sunflower) artichoke became the Jerusalem artichoke . The “sparrow grass’ Virginia Howard mentions used to be--and probably still is--common usage in the English Midlands for asparagus .
Like “sparrow grass,” “calvary” for cavalry , one of Mr. Lederer's questionable examples of Slurvian, falls midway between pure mispronunciation and misunderstood expression, perpetuated by a massive misuse.
Hence John Skelton's early 16th-century poem Phyllyp Sparowe , a lament by a young lady for her pet sparrow killed by a cat, with the affecting lines: Nothynge it auayled/To call Phylyp agayne,/Whom Gyb our cat hath slayne.
--Men Without Art, Black Sparrow Press, 1987.