Word: wot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their annual four-day protest march to London, Britain's ban-the-bomb Aldermaston Marchers were snugly camped out at Reading when down swooped Scotland Yard, looking terribly grim. Wot's this? demanded the sleuths, and went around seizing a curious little pamphlet entitled R.S.G.-6 from the marchers. It outlined British plans in the event of a nuclear attack, even pinpointed emergency centers of government in case London is destroyed-along with hints that the marchers might want to picket one such site along their route. Publisher: an outfit calling itself "Spies for Peace...
...shapely 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...