OFFICIAL ENGLISH.

War Wit, Volume 1, Issue 6, 1 July 1941, Page 2

OFFICIAL ENGLISH.

A new version of the ' Trafalgar signal as a Goverment official of to-day would write it: “ England anticipates that, as regards the current emergency, personnel wil\face up to the issue arid exercise appropriately the functions allocated to their respective occupation-groups.” ' * * A Japanese learning English is credited with the following thesis on the banana: — “ The banana are great fruit. He are constructed in the same architectural style as sausage, difference being skin of sausage are habitually consumed, while it is not advisable to eat wrappings of banana. “ The banana are held aloft while consuming, sausage are usually left in reclining position. Sausage depend for creation on human beings or stuffing machine, while banana are pristine product of honourable Mother Earth. “In case of sausage both conclusions are attached to other sausage; banana, on other hand, are attached one end to stem and opposite termination entirely loose Finally, banana are strictly of vegetable kingdom, while affiliation of sausage often undecided.