"What," asked Miss Jones of one of her pupils, "do we mean by the. word 'plural'?" Hetty responded' promptly : "By the plural of a word we mean the same thing, only more of it."
Betty, taken to the. country for the weekend, had been having a'riin round the village. A passing glimpse of Ihe blacksmith's shop filled her wilh wonder. "Daddy." she said later. "I've just seen a man who makes horses !" "Nonsense, said daddy, "you've made .1 mistake." "No, I haven'!." she persisted. "1 saw him. He had one nearly finished, lie was just nailin" on ils back feet."
I Mrs While: "T hear your son has been in Italy for some time.'' Mrs Brown: "Oh, yes ' lie's become quite Italicised, too."'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 6 August 1929, Page 2
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