Wimsey-ical language
Apr. 13th, 2010 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexxkayOne thing I didn't mention about _Five Red Herrings_ was the incessant use of heavy Scottish dialect. This included frequent use of the mysterious utterance, "imph'm". From repeated context, I eventually suspected it meant something along the lines of "mmmmmaybe". Eventually I decide to google it, and found a pair of delightful poems.
_Have His Carcase_ was a much better book, as how could it not be with so much excellent Harriet/Peter banter. And in this book, I learn that the term "lounge lizard" is older than I would have thought. Other words of note: 'noonlight', 'scabious', 'hause-bone', 'halitus', 'pukka', 'gamp', 'subfusc', 'morgantically', and 'bunce'.
_Murder Must Advertise_ was also excellent, despite the near-total absence of Harriet. Words of note: 'dislimned', 'bonhomous', 'googlies', 'Chrononhotonthologos', 'Aldiborontophoscophornio', 'ack emma', 'insufflator', 'gibus', 'gobony', 'punnets', 'charabancs', 'dolichocephalic', and 'perpend'.
Also, the sentence: "I said, 'What-ho! that absolutely whangs the nail over the crumpet.' Because it struck me, really, as being the caterpillar's boots."
_Have His Carcase_ was a much better book, as how could it not be with so much excellent Harriet/Peter banter. And in this book, I learn that the term "lounge lizard" is older than I would have thought. Other words of note: 'noonlight', 'scabious', 'hause-bone', 'halitus', 'pukka', 'gamp', 'subfusc', 'morgantically', and 'bunce'.
_Murder Must Advertise_ was also excellent, despite the near-total absence of Harriet. Words of note: 'dislimned', 'bonhomous', 'googlies', 'Chrononhotonthologos', 'Aldiborontophoscophornio', 'ack emma', 'insufflator', 'gibus', 'gobony', 'punnets', 'charabancs', 'dolichocephalic', and 'perpend'.
Also, the sentence: "I said, 'What-ho! that absolutely whangs the nail over the crumpet.' Because it struck me, really, as being the caterpillar's boots."