[lit-ideas] More Bloopers from Students and the Morality of It All

D. Ritchie has J. M. Geary pouring scorn on one of D. Ritchie's (female?)  
students,
 
who mispelt 'valour' as 'veleur'.
 
I wrote a long post, so far uncommented, on the intelligence of the girl,  
and the bad taste
on people -- who were not there -- to pour scorn on a mistake that was  
possibly due
to D. Ritchie pronouncing Buchan aloud (in Scots) and the girl being a  native
Oregonian.
 
Veleur is related to 'lure' and allure (in one reading of allure) -- so the  
girl was being (perhaps unconsciously) being witty (if not 'gentile'). 
 
Cheers,
 
JL



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