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Black issues an edict: the illegal O, whether upper or lower case, must vanish from the language. Doctor becomes dctr, books are bks, clockshop, clckshp; saying cockadoodledoo aloud would be tantamount to fomenting rebellion. The docile natives of Ooroo, now renamed "R," try hard to talk the new gibberish. A by tells a girl she sings like a chir of riles, and gets slapped. Lads studying Igic at schl recite: "Mist is always mist, but what is mist isn't always mist.'' Peple can n Inger tell rot from root. Babies make as much sense as their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Owning the Jlly Rger | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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