Did anyone else decipher the poem on the radiator cover?
There are a few errors in the ciphering, and I’m wondering if they’re intentional or not.
The designer’s name is Clough. Is that pronounced “Clue” because that would be cool.
I would expect it to be pronounced “cluff.”
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I would expect it to be pronounced “cluff.”
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Ah, but is it Clough like through or Clough like tough? Or Clough like dough?
-ough is one of the meanest letter clusters in English writing.
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Did anyone else decipher the poem on the radiator cover?
There are a few errors in the ciphering, and I’m wondering if they’re intentional or not.
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Never mind. It was intentional, and I figured it out.
Whoa…this is awesome…
I hope I someday have the opportunity to live in some rambling apartment or house. All mine so far have been pretty uninteresting in that regard, although my folks apparently were once tempted by this giant four-level house with hallways that ran in circles. They got lost in it trying to tour it.
I’d have loved to grow up in a house like that.
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Ah, but is it Clough like through or Clough like tough? Or Clough like dough?
-ough is one of the meanest letter clusters in English writing.
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In an interesting coincidence, a spiritual, if not literal, ancestor of Eric Clough is Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the designer and builder of Portmeirion, a resort in Wales that is best known as “The Village” in Patrick McGoohan’s 1967 TV series, The Prisoner.
Sir Clough pronounced it “cluff.”
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Completely irrelevant but is it commonplace to use the word “bemused” to mean “amused” now? Because I always thought that word meant puzzled or confused but those meanings don’t make sense in the context in which it’s used at the end (since they solved the puzzle, after all).
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Quite common. I didn’t learn the real definition of the word until a couple years tell.