Grumpy wizards make a toxic brew for the jovial queen

 

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 A pangram is a sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet. Less frequently, such sentences are called holalphabetic sentences.Interesting pangrams are generally short ones; constructing a sentence that includes the fewest repeat letters possible is a challenging task. However, pangrams that are slightly longer yet enlightening, humorous, or eccentric are noteworthy in their own right.

By far the most well-known pangram is, "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." Frequently this is the sentence used to test out new typewriters, presumably because it includes every letter of the alphabet. Curiously, this sentence is often misquoted by changing "jumps" to "jumped." The past tense version, lacking an "s," is not a pangram. Often, too, it is misquoted as "the lazy dog" rather than "a lazy dog." This error is not as grievous; the sentence remains a pangram, just a slightly longer one.

Do you know any?

 

A very big box sailed up then whizzed quickly from Japan.

Jack quietly moved up front and seized the big ball of wax.

A quick movement of the enemy will jeopardize six gunboats.

 

Oh they make me chuckle...

 

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Ms Pigott Speaking: On scrabble, crosswords and borborygmus

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I love words; especially those not everyone uses.

And I love scrabble, particularly playing with an old scrabble set with wooden letters.

But have to admit that I hate crossword puzzles- I just cannot get enthusiastic about trying to unravel clues someone else has very cleverly made up. I do have the romantic picture in my mind of a dear brother of mine and his wife sitting on their beautiful upstairs balcony, steaming coffee mugs at their elbows companionably doing the morning crossword... but still it does not tempt me to become an enthusiast.

I have favourite words like rococo. And have you ever thought of the opposite of disgruntled? I love the thought of being gruntled - such a warm snugly sort of word! Recently I have been given a book that contains 120 words you should know and was pleased that I did know quite a few of them. One I didn’t know and the book termed “delightful but useless” is delightful- borborygmus- it means stomach rumbling- what else could it mean?

Introducing Ms Pigott

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Bury and Discover is delighted to introduce a new guest blogger who goes by the name Ms Pigott. Ms Pigott abhors routine chores so do not expect a weekly post from her, she will rather drop in on the blog when she feels so inclined.

Picture her as your fabulous aunt who wore head scarves while holidaying in Capri before they were cool. I suspect she dons glasses as an excuse to wear diamond encrusted frames that rival the sparkles on her fingers. She has travelled the world, is the perfect homemaker, and can probably out-bake your granny. Above all, Ms Pigott has the most impeccable manners.

I hope you enjoy her posts!

PS. This is not a photo of Ms Pigott but I would not be surprised if her underclothing resembled those above

Guest Post: Ms Pigott Speaking

I think this advise should not be  completely written off as silly and old fashioned!

I guess the instruction to never approach sewing with a sigh or lackadaisically could go for most tasks or projects.

And I love the admonishment to " have your hair in order,powder and lipstick put on" in case of visitors or returning husbands- perhaps we should all take a bit of notice of that!

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