Re: OT: what's in a name
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- Subject: Re: OT: what's in a name
- From: "* &* b* p* <i*@pip.com.au>
- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 11:40:48 +1000
From: "heather & bernard pryor" <irishaven@pip.com.au>
Dear Anner Whitehead: you wrote about PRUNES AND PRISMS being your all-time
favourite name for an iris. It reminded me of my English grandmother who
was born in 1890 and grew up under the regime of Queen Victoria and her
rigid ways in which ladies should act.
My grandmother apparently would, in the early 1900s, sit with her friends
and in between conversations would quietly whisper "Prunes and Prisms" in
order to make their mouths small and to appear to be speaking in a delicate
lady-like way.
My grandmother also recounted how one of the girls was quite defiant and
would say "petit pois" thus causing her mouth to open widely at the end of
the phrase.
Can you imagine anyone being so defiant? What a joke when we read and see
the horrors in the news today. It was certainly a world apart then! Yet
it makes me wonder what we will all be saying in the early days of the next
century.
Bernard Pryor
irishaven@pip.com.au
Sydney Australia
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