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Serious business with Jasper Fforde
  • UF Review:You have said before that your favorite word is “linoleum.” Is it still?
  • Fforde:It is. ‘Linoleum’ has a lovely internal rhythm to it that rolls off the tongue in a very agreeable manner. It also has the distinction of being the only word to rhyme with ‘Napoleon’, but I don’t expect that helped French poets when they came to write poetry about the Emperor.
  • UF Review:Do you have a favorite word in Welsh?
  • Fforde:Slang Welsh for a microwave: ‘Poppety-ping’. While we’re on the subject of Welsh, ‘Penguin’ is a Welsh word meaning ‘white head’. The more observant among us will note that a Penguin doesn’t have a white head — it’s black. The reason, apparently, is that a Penguin was a Welsh word for the Great Auk, a now-vanished sea bird of the Northern latitudes. When it became extinct, the word simply travelled across to their distant Antarctic cousins. There. You heard it here first.
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