Alcofrolic, Mistella; Op Shop

[Benjamin Barrett]

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> WHISPERING WALL--there's one at the Barossa Reservoir.  Next
> year, I'll see
> the one in Beijing at the Temple of Heaven.  Is this in OED?  If you don't
> know, the reservoir is a curved wall, and people at one end can hear a
> whisper of someone at the other end.  However, the Chinese one is
> jammed with
> people.

FWIW, This sounds perhaps it might be shaped like a parabola. We have a
baseball field in Seattle (Garfield) where you can hear a whisper from the
pitcher's mount at the batter's plate because of the parabolic shape behind
home plate.

Benjamin Barret