SOME PRIZE 'HOWLERS'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9, 5 March 1908, Page 38

SOME PRIZE ' HOWLERS'

The ' University Correspondent ' points some divertine mistakes from the- schoolroom.- For. example i— Shakespeare wrote a play called 'The Winter Sale. The chief crops of England a*-*© corns, the chiet exports are Liverpool, " Southampton, and the River Thames. The modern name for Gaul is vinegar. A volcano is a whole .'in the earth's crust wtnen emits lavender and ashes. The Battle of Trafalgar was fought, on the se.xs, therefore it is sometimes called the Battle of Water -100. ' The Complete Angler ' is another name for Euclid, because he wrote all about angles. • A roadstead is a lOidside cottage or f a rm-house. The two races living in the north c« Europe arc Esquimaux and Archangels. On the low-coast plains of Mexico yellow fever is very popular. An unknown hand threw a harrow at Rufus and 1 all— • ed him dead on the spot. - Adverbs ending in where are somewhere, nowhere', earthenware. Stirling . was famous for its sovereigns who usedto be crowned there. A sovereign is still called a 1 pound starling.'' < A volcano is a burning mountain with a creature in it. - £. Alfred Austin was chosen by the Queen as Poet' Laureate. He said : 'If you let me make the songs I care' not who sings them.' Some of the West India islands are subject to torpedoes. The Imperfect tense is needed (in French) to expn ss a future action in past time whioh does not take place -at all. Arabia has many syphoons and very bad ones ; it gets into your hair even with your mouth shut.