[lit-ideas] Re: Wafting
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:46:17 -0230
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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