That is quite interesting, but we’re still missing its vocal cousin. Closer, but no cigars yet. I’ve just found this ‘obsolete’ word in the OED: missounding, ‘Erroneous or uneuphonious sounding (of music, words, etc.),’ which could include intentional application.

Anyone know a word - I haven’t had any luck with reverse dictionaries - for ‘deliberate mispronunciation,’ - as for comedic or emotive effect? (Or ‘deliberate use of incorrect grammar,’ either.) I’m thinking of some very effective examples. I think such rhetorical devices may go back a long way, and...

Tom Lehrer on Christmas: Christmas time is here, by golly, Disapproval would be folly. Deck the halls with hunks of holly, Fill the cup and don't say when. Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens, Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens. Even though the prospect sickens, Brother, here we go again. On Chris...

I assumed the name adaptation came from the Spaniards,
and it was pronounced ‘we-HEE-hee.’

Came across this name in a novel . . . Wijiji.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wijiji

Sez the OED: ‘Cellar’ is a corruption of ‘saler,’ an obsolete word for none other than ‘salt cellar.’ That being a borrowing from the French ‘salière,’ that going right back - as you’ve now guessed - to the Latin for ‘salt.’ P.S. As is probably unnecessary to point out, the French word is formed wit...

And here’s another film, and of another sort yet. The Dresser . And, interestingly, both Brian Cox ( The Carer ) and Anthony Hopkins ( The Dresser ) have both portrayed Lear on stage with prestigious British companies. Just found out - the version with Hopkins was a BBC television production. There ...

Thanks for the suggestion. What I’ve found most affecting are several scenes in King Lear (See my previous post in this thread.) For sheer lyrical beauty, the forest scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Titania and the fairies. Almost forgot Puck! There’s a recording of Mendelssohn’s famous inci...

I must add this: two very different films which incorporate - briefly but to stunning effect - scenes from Lear. The Carer, If I Were You.

Apparently, there are a few of the latter title. I meant the Canadian film, with Marcia Gay Harden.

I knew you would have the decency to respond, with or without the probably-nonexistent information.
Having recently rewatched Topsy Turvy, I got a copy of the playscript of The Mikado from the library. Great reading. Especially if one’s heard the music.
All the best.

Let me be frank. I am, at best, a middlebrow - at least re the humanities, although I have always loved language. It’s hard for me to get through a play, let alone truly appreciate the subtext. But I have been deeply moved by scenes I’ve run across here and there. If you have tears, prepare to shed ...

I was told a joke to which the punch line was "quel delicatesse!" Something like, “Oh, Calcutta,” . . . ? Incidentally, so it has nothing to do with German essen , to eat? This seemed so obvious to me, I’ve never looked it up. Speaking of looking things up, is anyone else as disappointed ...

The book was published in 2009.
You seem to be suggesting that ‘whomever’ would actually be correct. Bouquets, I think, to you.

. . . dashing off memos urging reconsideration of the project to whoever would listen. Wrestling with Moses Anthony Flint Whoever, whomever . . . I thought this the easiest issue in grammar. But this has me in a tizzy. Perhaps it’s an issue of proximity, as when the guy on public radio says, “Invest...

Oh, and . . . thanks for Charon! Ferry thoughtful!