tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post9109190875532525448..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: light, steam, bofAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-34644787009149273362010-01-11T11:35:10.456+00:002010-01-11T11:35:10.456+00:00The book is a zillion times better than the film; ...The book is a zillion times better than the film; it's the columns she wrote in... the Times, I think, which unfolded in real time in the early days of the war. It's like the best kind of blog really: intelligent, reflective, observational stuff, charming but never saccharine. Well worth seeking out. <br /><br />I have heard bantering French reply to 'Hein?' with 'Deux!'.<br /><br />'Oh la-la!' is alive and well in all circles, but one rarely hears 'Zut!', and I've yet to hear 'Zut alors!'.<br /><br />CV is 'psatspir', which sounds like another interjection!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-9362492774321445582010-01-11T09:59:16.672+00:002010-01-11T09:59:16.672+00:00Goodie!
I saw the film of Mrs Miniver when I was ...Goodie! <br />I saw the film of Mrs Miniver when I was a child, with Greer Garson in the title role.<br />I have never heard "Pshaw", but I have heard people make odd noises when they mean something like it. It took me a long time to realize that "Hein", when spoken, was composed entirely of vowels, and used to wonder why French people were depicted in novels using a word that rhymed with "wine" or "dine" and sounded like a German word or a marque of brandy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-28791142183825135622010-01-11T08:31:23.231+00:002010-01-11T08:31:23.231+00:00Yes, people here really do say 'bof'!
Hav...Yes, people here really do say 'bof'!<br /><br />Have you read Jan Struther's 'Mrs Miniver'? She collects such oddities, but remarks that she is still waiting for a 'Pshaw!'Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.com