18 Sep
2015
18 Sep
'15
7:36 p.m.
On 18/09/2015 18:47, rkg wrote:
I've just remembered Flanders & Swann's ``I'm a g'nu!''
``... and nobody knows wuhoo's wuhoo''.
`` nor am I in the least like that dreadful hearty beast; oh g'no, g'no, g'no, I'm a g'nu!'' R.
Hartebeest. (A kind of antelope.) It is true but not universally known that before F&S wrote that song, "gnu" was pretty much always pronounced "nu", but now the initial "g" is extremely common. -- g