[lit-ideas] Re: Wafting


On Jul 23, 2008, at 10:32 AM, wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
P.S. Is "wafting" a word? We're diehard Scrabble players in this family; I 
really need to know. That would be a 7-letter word!



It's certainly a word among the bloggers of Canada:
http://splatterproof.blogspot.com/2007/03/wafting-in-beer-farts-of- midgets.html
I was going to quote the famous Gilbert and Sullivan song from "Pirates of Penzance," but then found it doesn't actually have "wafting" in it. Ah, the tricks of memory: 

Sighing softly to the river
Comes the loving breeze,
Setting nature all a-quiver
Rustling through the trees

[snip]

When the breeze is out a-wooing
Who can woo so well?
Shocking tales the rogue could tell,
Nobody can woo so well.
Pretty brook, thy dream is over,
For thy love is but a rover!
Sad the lot of poplar trees,
Courted by the fickle breeze.

No waft, no weft, no weave, no nuffink.

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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