[Vwoolf] Pangrams in Woolf
Jeremy Hawthorn
jeremy.hawthorn at ntnu.no
Mon Mar 5 12:18:49 EST 2018
Just to be a killjoy . . . I thought it unexpected that Woolf would
write "demoralizing" rather than "demoralising." I don't have a full
scholarly edition of /Three Guineas/ at hand, but my old Penguin edition
has "demoralising." The 1992 World's Classics edition of /Three Guineas/
and /A Room of One's Own/ edited by Morag Schiach has "demoralizing",
but a note at the front of the book states that "ise" endings have been
changed to "ize" in order "to follow current standard usage."
So it appears to be a pangram in US editions (Google Books confirms) but
not in UK editions. Now who has the first edition?
Jeremy H
On 05.03.2018 17.56, Sally Greene via Vwoolf wrote:
> Today's A.Word.A.Day introduces the concept of the pangram, or a
> sentence that includes all 26 letters of the alphabet. We all know
> "The quick brown of jumps over the lazy dog," but surely there are
> others? They've created a software program that lets you thrown in
> whole texts of books in order to find such sentences.
>
> https://wordsmith.org/words/expergefaction.html
>
> Here's what I found in Three Guineas:
>
> In the 'seventies of last century, Miss Jex-Blake and her associates
> were vigorously fighting the battle for admission of women to the
> medical profession, and the doctors were still more vigorously
> resisting their entry, alleging that it must be improper and
> demoralizing for a woman to have to study and deal with delicate and
> intimate medical questions.
>
> Enjoy,
> Sally
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