[lit-ideas] Re: Wafting

Quoting David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> 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

Thank you. I assume that's a representative population sample. Randomly
selected, of course. The stuff below looks like poetry; thus shall I refrain
from comment.

Walter O.
Member,
Cttee. for Scrabbling
Family Okshevsky





> 
> 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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