Mairzy Doats...

Makes a nice change from Allium triquetrum, anyway...
 
Thanks for the fascinating info (and exact words) for my dimly remembered song's origins. What a scholarly lot you all are...! So now I have to revise my fantasy scenario and instead of GIs bewildered by Brits have to imagine Brits (including the infant Longville) bewildered by GIs...
 
Dotty words and names reminds me to pick up on Moira's mention of Society Garlic. I've often wondered but never asked anyone: why is it so-called? Was the smell supposed to be more 'refeened' than that of 'real' garlic? (Are the bulbs ever actually used as a culinary substitute for garlic? Have they ever been?) Actually, secondary question: does anyone ever 'really' use the so-called common name? 'Spontaneously,' I mean, rather than quoting it from the authority of a book? I rather suspect not - that it's one of those mythical 'common names' which either died out ages ago in actual usage or were never in actual usage anyway but made up by some long-gone writer of gardening books (folks who have a lot of sins, of various kinds, to answer for...).
 
Tim
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