tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post2594081429093212706..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: water, conniption, pedometerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-39730854361772483012010-02-26T15:22:14.819+00:002010-02-26T15:22:14.819+00:00So "conniption fit", often found in nove...So "conniption fit", often found in novels about the Deep South, is a tautology. I'm surprised. The word sounds too precise to be blurred by repetition.<br /><br />I wondered whether the pedometer-rescuing woman emphasised the word's first syllable conscious of yesteryear's scandal whipped up by The Sun. The newspaper was reacting to the creation of a paedophiles' register and its fulminations led an ill-educated lynch-mob persecuting a paediatrician. Given that there's no smoke without fire and it served him right for making use of something as un-English as a diphthong I'm sure your lady sought to prove she could distinguish between the pronunciation of the short e and its form ligatured (not sure about this word) to an a. Only in TW.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-76551187088635250122010-02-26T04:04:18.557+00:002010-02-26T04:04:18.557+00:00I looked up On Suzanne. Thank you for writing abo...I looked up <i>On Suzanne</i>. Thank you for writing about it. It's beautiful and moving; the language, the details seem to burst with the love and longing the poet has for her departed friend.HKatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653570160517335758noreply@blogger.com