[Vwoolf] Pangrams in Woolf

Mon Mar 5 12:26:25 EST 2018

I have the 1st HP edn – and also to be killjoy, I did check – but the z is there.  Now, would anyone like to check "The Doctor's Second Thoughts", from which this quote comes?  That I don’t have.

Stuart

From: Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf 
Sent: Monday, March 5, 2018 5:18 PM
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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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