A mile for a Mite, with spice.

[amandapage]

I briefly went to Uni in Adelaide, in the 90s. The first (and only) class I took was English Lit. The first semester we studied literature that could be classified as new canon. Two that I remember, beyond fragments of story and no title springing to mind, are The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, and The Golden Gate, by Vikram Seth

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[kicking_k]

J, to me in the car last night:

"And you can hand over the Scary-Go-Round books."
My mum: "Skerry-go-what?"
Me: "Scary-Go-Round."
Mum: "So how would you pronounce skerries, as in wee islands, J?"
J: "Ummm..."

He's English, we're Scottish. To be fair (or fehh) he says he'd pronounce "scary" with a longer vowel than "skerry".

[hnpcc]

You know I've just read both of those in a completely NZ accent... seems to work better that way. ;-)