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Odd one out

Jay MandalJay Mandal
edited August 2007 in - Reading

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  • Jay MandalJay Mandal
    The Famous Five.
    The Joy of Six.
    The Secret Seven.
  • Tessa TangentTessa Tangent
    Why are you picking on The Joy of Six?  I quite like it!
  • JennyJenny
    When Eight Bells Toll

    (What about One to Four?)
  • dorothyddorothyd
    The Ninth Legion?
  • Tessa TangentTessa Tangent
    To The Nines (Janet Evanovitch) .. OK I geddit now.
  • Jay MandalJay Mandal
    How did you know, TT!
  • JennyJenny
    Have I missed the point of this thread?!!
  • Im TryingIm Trying
    me to Jenny
  • Jay MandalJay Mandal
    It started as a little joke about which book Enid Blyton didn't write and, like Topsy, grew. It wasn't necessarily a numbers thing - I said odd 'one' out out of politial correctness.

    I wonder if the keyboard needs cleaning. But that's another thread ...
  • SallySally
    What about The Adventurous Four series...???
  • Tessa TangentTessa Tangent
    Just call me Mystic Tessa, Jay ;O)
  • Tessa TangentTessa Tangent
    OK, for the nth time I explain this to people - durrrr.  Turn the keyboard upside down and give it a good bash against desk/table/whatever.  That usually does the job.  Sometimes a good clean between the keys on the keyboard with a cotton bud dipped in water then squeezed well does the job.  Surround your "C" key!!
  • CarolCarol
    Why the 'C' key?
  • Tessa TangentTessa Tangent
    Because his "C" wasn't working, Carol!
  • CarolCarol
    Hmmmm.
  • JennyJenny
    TT - couldn't you put it in the washing machine with a low spin speed?!!
  • Island GirlIsland Girl
    The Famous Five.
    The Joy of Six.
    The Secret Seven.

    Usn't wun of those a Nuw Zulnd unstrction menual?
  • Island GirlIsland Girl
    Sorry. Just realised that unless you know what a New Zealand accent sounds like, you probably won't understand a word of that.
  • Tessa TangentTessa Tangent
    Yes, IG, it's obviously a plug for some old book about you-know-what in NZ.  Jay has some similar title which we've all obviously read and memorised :O)
  • CarolCarol
    I'm intrigued IG. Do NZ's pronounce their i's as e's, and their e's as i's?
  • Island GirlIsland Girl
    Carol, they just have a strange way of cutting vowels down to an even shorter sound if that's possible. People say the Aussie accent is similar but you can spot a Kiwi at ten paces by getting them to say 'Fish and Chips'. It comes out sounding sort of like, Fsh n Chps. Their a's DO kind of sound like e's though.

    This explanation isn't helful at all, is it? Thought not. You'd have to hear it for yourself.
  • CarolCarol
    I can imagine IG, but thanks for trying to clarify for me.
  • JennyJenny
    I once worked in the same office as a NZ girl called Pat.

    She pronounced is as Pet. Apparently when it was said in an English accent, to her it sounded like Paht!
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