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For days, the royals were scorned as stuffy brutes for failing to display grief in public.
An American pol going on American television to say that the Europeans should tidy up the former Yugoslavia without our help is like the Economist running (as has been known to happen) a stuffy editorial saying that a corrupt dictator in some Third World country should resign.
Lest the reader think of Dryden as a stuffy purist, here he is on neologisms:
The consequences of allergies are usually no greater than sneezing, a stuffy nose, and itchy eyes.
Aural equivalents of these trompes l'oeil are socalled oronyms— trompes l'oreille —which Pinker describes in Language Instinct (New York, 1994, p. 188), citing such examples as, The stuffy nose can lead to problems The stuff he knows...; It's a doggy-dog world It's a dog-eat-dog world; A girl with colitis goes by A girl with kaleidoscope eyes (Beatles' song); Gladly the cross-eyed bear Gladly the cross I'd bear (traditional Christian hymn).