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- From: arumugam@still.ecn.purdue.edu (Bhaskar Krishna Arumugam)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
- Subject: Re: Featherstonehaugh
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.170029.26970@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:00:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.010817.20854@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan24.010817.20854@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
- >I heard somewhere that S. Ukridge's middle name was one of those unearthly
- >British words that take up several inches of type but only one r two syllables
- >of pronunciation; to wit, that "Featherstonehaugh" was, in fact, pronounced
- >"Fanshaw." Two days after I heard this I substitute-taught for a class that
- >went on a field trip to a music hall, in which one of the performances was by a
- >certain Fanshaw (spelled as it sounded) who'd gotten recordings of African
- >music and incorporated it with other stuff and danced the Hippopotamus Dance to
- >it on stage. Interesting as all that was, all I could think about was whether
- >his name used to be spelled "Featherstonehaugh" or not. Does anyone hnow a
- >definite answer to either of these questions?
- >
- >-Neal Whitman
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- The Name is indeed spelt Featherstonehaugh!!
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