Niagara Falls = "Niffles"

[Paul Johnston]

Correction--it was EDWARD House, as David said.

Paul
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> Edward House was Wilson's aide, the man-behind-the-scenes, his Karl Rove.
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> On 12/21/06, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> > JL quotes a 1929 letter to Time Magazine:
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> >   During the War it was an Englishman who said the Americans were worse
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> > the English in the difference between spelling and pronunciation. "You
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> > it W-i-l-s-o-n and pronounce it 'House,'" he remarked.
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> > Is that a reference to US politics? (Wilson was President during World
War
> > I.) If not, I don't get it at all.
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