Today I feel a hankering for casefic: stories that follow the Lads as they work through a case, investigating and trying to stop some threat to the public. Anyone have favorites in this genre that they'd like to recommend?
I don't have copies of the Pooh books here, so no way of checking - I hate to say it, but are your copies definitely the original language editions? For some ridiculous reasons alot of American publishers have decided that Americans aren't quite bright enough to work out what some words mean (like "mum" instead of "mom", for instance), and alot of English books are "translated" into American... *headdesk* Although I'm guessing that's a more modern thing, so Pooh should surely be intact...
Maybe it's one of those words that crossed to the US and then stuck that way, when people dropped it over here? Or maybe it's more used in a particular part of England, and crossed from there.
are your copies definitely the original language editions
My copies are actually in boxes right now. I found the quotes by searching for "perhaps I'll put a muffler round my neck." One of the hits was the relevant chapter reprinted in The Daily Mail, so it seems very likely that "muffler" appeared in the original. (Though there was an error in the newspaper's text.)
I remember those things women and girls wore on a ribbon around their necks with open ends to put hands in as muffs. Maybe from the same idea of keeping warm? I had one as a girl and a google search shows they're still available. And yes, a muffler is a neck scarf as well as that thing on a car! LOL! Words are fun.
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Date: 2022-01-15 11:29 pm (UTC)I don't have copies of the Pooh books here, so no way of checking - I hate to say it, but are your copies definitely the original language editions? For some ridiculous reasons alot of American publishers have decided that Americans aren't quite bright enough to work out what some words mean (like "mum" instead of "mom", for instance), and alot of English books are "translated" into American... *headdesk* Although I'm guessing that's a more modern thing, so Pooh should surely be intact...
Maybe it's one of those words that crossed to the US and then stuck that way, when people dropped it over here? Or maybe it's more used in a particular part of England, and crossed from there.
Oxford English Dictionary re Muffler
Date: 2022-01-16 12:44 am (UTC)Dec 5, 2010 — For 200 years before the warming scarf, there was the muffler (1592), followed by the neck-comforter (1853) and the muffetee (1890).
RE: Oxford English Dictionary re Muffler
Date: 2022-01-16 12:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-16 12:50 am (UTC)My copies are actually in boxes right now. I found the quotes by searching for "perhaps I'll put a muffler round my neck." One of the hits was the relevant chapter reprinted in The Daily Mail, so it seems very likely that "muffler" appeared in the original. (Though there was an error in the newspaper's text.)
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Date: 2022-01-16 02:15 am (UTC)