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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Can
anyone point me to useful literature on any of these expressions?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Does
the following seem like a normal use of ‘as it were’?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>********<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>"The
tracks!" said Pooh. "A third animal has joined the other two!"
"Pooh!" cried Piglet "Do you think it is another Woozle?"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>"No,"
said Pooh, "because it makes different marks. It is either Two Woozles and
one, as it might be, Wizzle, or Two, as it might be, Wizzles and one, if so it
is, Woozle. Let us continue to follow them."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>So
they went on, feeling just a little anxious now, in case the three animals in
front of them were of Hostile Intent. And Piglet wished very much that his
Grandfather T. W. were there, instead of elsewhere, and Pooh thought how nice
it would be if they met Christopher Robin suddenly but quite accidentally, and
only because he liked Christopher Robin so much. And then, all of a sudden,
Winnie-the-Pooh stopped again, and licked the tip of his nose in a cooling
manner, for he was feeling more hot and anxious than ever in his life before.
There were four animals in front of them!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>"Do
you see, Piglet? Look at their tracks! Three, as it were, Woozles, and one, as
it was, Wizzle. Another Woozle has joined them!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>From
A.A. Milne, ‘In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a
Woozle’ (Chapter 3 of Winnie the Pooh).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>********<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Thanks.
– Raf <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Professor
Raphael Salkie, Tel: (+44) 01273 643335</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>School
of
Humanities,
Tel: (+44) 01273 643337</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>University
of Brighton
Tel: (+44) 01273 600900</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Falmer,
Brighton, BN1 9PH</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>England.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Fax:
(+44) 01273 641873</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Email:
</span><a href="mailto:r.m.salkie@brighton.ac.uk"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'>r.m.salkie@brighton.ac.uk</span></a><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Home page: <a
href="http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/salkie">http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/salkie</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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