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Mind your language.(Brief Article)
A READER called Leslie Frizell has been reading Eothen by Alexander Kinglake. I wish I had, because a friend has recommended it too. Kinglake, though a lawyer by profession, was an outdoor man -- all horses, Homeric values and the eastern horizon -- but he was careful enough in his writing. The journey described in Eothen took place in 1835, but the book didn't come out till 1844. That was nothing compared with his history of the Crimean war, which he had witnessed. The eighth and last volume was not published until 1887. He died four years later.
Anyway, Leslie Frizell was puzzled by this phrase: `born of his mother, with a Chiffney-bit in his mouth'. There was no …
