WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Sir,-I subscribe to The Listener mainly for what is contained in pages 4 to 33 and do enjoy browsing over them, knowing full well that nothing appearing within those pages is likely to disturb unduly .the bovine mental quietude of simple country folk like myself. This evening, however, the Boeotian satisfaction was severely jolted on reading the article "From Iona to Limehouse" when the word "whounits" loomed up like a cow on a dark country road. I mentally ruminated for half-an-hour, consulted the kids’ school dictionary after they’d retired, and rang my neighbours on the party line, with the result that I’m more confused than
ever. One farmer suggested that it was . @ measure for saving electricity, another that they were certain types of State houses, while my nearest neighbour told me that it had "something to do with artificial insemination." Please, Myr. Editor, shower enlightenment on a rural ignoramus by giving full explanation and the etymology of this philological atrocity.
ABRACADABRA
(Gisborne).
(If our correspondent will return the missing mi} he will find the world self-explanatory.-d.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 366, 28 June 1946, Page 5
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180WHAT DOES IT MEAN? New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 366, 28 June 1946, Page 5
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