Word: wich
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John A. T. Robinson, Bishop of Wool-wich in the Church of England, said last night that the church must stop "chasing its own tail" and respond to the challenge of the age we live...
...small crowd greeted with almost complete silence a poorly played first period in which Harvard grabbed a 1-0 lead, while being outshot 12-9. Gene Kinasewich scored from in front of the Princeton net on a pass from the corner from Baldy Smith, after Kinase-wich had skated the puck from his own end and given it to Smith...
...Porter's "Kathy's Date" is slicker, moving nicely through seven scenes in six pages. Sometimes the dislogue is a bit too cute--two boys and a girl are a "sand-wich"--but the story is about wild college youth, and necessarily interesting. There's also some--a little...
...fears that people think she is dumb as well. She is forever polishing her English, syllabically going over new words again and again: "Edification, feasible, feeesible, sì? That will be feasible. Good." She has trouble with some names, like Kerrygront and Clargable, and she says Barbara Stan-wich as if it came between slices of bread. She orders "Scotch on the stones" because it still gets the laugh it got when she first made the mistake...
...figure and "eyes like muscatel grapes," he quickly let her know that his first love was English. He packed her off to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to drop her "very queer R's" and pick up her elocutionary ABCs. One of his early obiter dictions: "Wot, wich, were, wen. weel, etc. are absolutely incorrect; but the alternatives hwat, hwich, hwere, hwen, and hweel are equally incorrect...