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BrazilianBombshell
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Help please with missing word: a rather ---- edition of Omar Khayyam
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Thursday 16 June 16 23:41 BST (UK) »
I need your help. This is an entry into a my Mother's 1942 war time diary. The word eluding me is on the 4th line after 'rather'. I have tried for the last 5 years (I know I'm sad!) to work out what it could be. Can anyone help me with this mystery?
Davies - Brazil
Pooley - London
Preston- Lincoln
Martyn - Lincoln
Cannon - Lincoln
Griffin - Dorset
Poore - Dorset
Dickinson - Leicester & Dorset
GR2
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Thursday 16 June 16 23:55 BST (UK) »
Could it be "wiz", short for "wizard", in the sense of "delightful"? Chambers dictionary says it is an "old colloquial" usage. "...... he really is a wiz of a wiz ......." as several Munchkins have said.
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Friday 17 June 16 00:00 BST (UK) »
I agree with wiz(ard).
GRAY - Inveresk; Lanarkshire
LINDSAY - Lanarkshire
PURDIE - Lanarkshire; W. Lothian
POZZI - Elgin; Lancashire
MACKENZIE, MORISON - Stornoway
ARCHIBALD, HAY, HUNTER, SNADDON - Clackmannanshire
COXON, HALL, JACKSON, SHOTTON - Northumberland
BrazilianBombshell
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Re: Help please with missing word: a rather ---- edition of Omar Khayyam
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Friday 17 June 16 00:02 BST (UK) »
Thank you very much GR2 and Isabel! It makes sense now. This one is now put to bed.... like me. Thank you so.
Davies - Brazil
Pooley - London
Preston- Lincoln
Martyn - Lincoln
Cannon - Lincoln
Griffin - Dorset
Poore - Dorset
Dickinson - Leicester & Dorset
Greensleeves
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Re: Help please with missing word: a rather ---- edition of Omar Khayyam
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Friday 17 June 16 21:22 BST (UK) »
I agree with 'wiz' (wizard) too; and the letter reminds me of the small edition of Omar Khayyam which my father used to carry about with him. I think it was popular during WW2: "Awake for morning in the bowl of night, Has flung the stones that put the stars to flight...."
Suffolk: Pearl(e), Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
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Viktoria
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Friday 17 June 16 23:42 BST (UK) »
I have a small copy, about two and a half inches by three and a half.
Sadly the back and front are missing but it has a lovely illustration.
Gosh I`ts a long time since I read that.
Wasn`t it Richard Burton ( the explorer) who actually wrote it or am I getting mixed up?
Viktoria.
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Could the word be wizened edition of . . . . .
Erato
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Re: Help please with missing word: a rather ---- edition of Omar Khayyam
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Wizard? In that context what would it mean? Why would anyone abbreviate it?
Wiltshire: Banks, Taylor
Somerset: Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire: Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol: Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down: Ennis, McGee
Wicklow: Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire: Logan, Conning
Wisconsin: Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine: Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis
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Me aged 3. Tidied up thanks to Wiggy.
Re: Help please with missing word: a rather ---- edition of Omar Khayyam
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Quote from: Erato on Saturday 18 June 16 20:15 BST (UK)
Wizard? In that context what would it mean? Why would anyone abbreviate it?
It was British slang used around the 1940s - wiz or whiz meaning superb; excellent; wonderful.
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