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In response to Dr. Murray Zimmerman's review of A Sea of Words [XXII,4], I enclose a copy of The Patrick O'Brian Newsletter from March 1994 containing an explanation of the word marthambles:
May I offer a few reflections on various matters that struck me while browsing through XXII, 1?
The French treasures are also somewhat mutilated, queue [XXII,1] is feminine not masculine: tirer le diable par la queue; appuyer sur le champignon means to step on the gas, le champignon being the slang term for accelerator; in vivre comme un coq en pâte there is no acute accent on the e; it is une [not un ] autre paire de manches that the French use for something that is entirely different.
I cannot resist the temptation to add two fine examples of names matching professions after reading Jerome Betts's article All in the Family [XXII,1].
I read Mary Douglas Dirks's review of Professor Spevack's Shakespeare Thesaurus [XXII, 1], in the comfort of the little village pub at Stalham Green here in Norfolk.
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