So, how's your English?

[alfreda89]

I've seen portions of this list, but never this much, and have no idea who wrote it. It's posted at this site:

http://bertc.com/english.htm

I was pleased to find out I got almost all of them (and finally learned how to pronounce those Muses -- we'll see if it sticks) but Islington I've never been positive of, and what is this?

Foeffer

As in close to the buddy of the Grey Mouser? Feffer?

Bev, fun for your kids (but not at first!)

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[superversive.livejournal.com]

I’m not positive, but I think foeffer is meant to be feoffor, a word I’m sure you’re acquainted with, though I much doubt you’ve ever been enfeoffed by one.

I recall, by the way, that King Benjamin VII of Boxen was a rabbit, and that the Animal-Land part of Boxen had a feudal past. If your liege lord were a rabbit, would that make him a Hasen-feoffor?

Oh, what a bad pun!

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I'll bet you're right, I was right about the way to pronounce it, but I hadn't stumbled across it as a variant for fief:

from French feoffer or fiefer, from French fief.

God, I love words. Maybe this is why I don't have a gift for foreign languages. I love this one so much...

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Sadly, this version has a typo early on: in the line

I will keep you, Suzy, busy

the proper name should be spelled "Susy"; otherwise the point is lost.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would make it more challenging to those who don't know the word.

[paigeroberts.livejournal.com]

It's been a long time since I read those books, but wasn't the Grey Mouser's buddy Faffyrd, or something like that?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Fafhred and the Gray Mouser by Fritz Lieber -- he did a mess of stories about them.