Pen Cap, Lid or Top?
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Lol! Well, this certainly got people talking!
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
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I wouldn't be surprised if she had had the chance to answer the question, she'd have answered that she didn't use it because she didn't know the right expression either .
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From the first chapter of The Mystery of the Secret Room:
"I think we ought to find a better name," said Fatty, putting the cap back on his fountain-pen.
"I think we ought to find a better name," said Fatty, putting the cap back on his fountain-pen.
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Wolfgang wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if she had had the chance to answer the question, she'd have answered that she didn't use it because she didn't know the right exprerssion either .
Hooray, that settles it! Well spotted, Anita.Anita Bensoussane wrote:From the first chapter of The Mystery of the Secret Room:
"I think we ought to find a better name," said Fatty, putting the cap back on his fountain-pen.
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True. Thank you, Anita. We can depend on you to find the phrase for the right usage.
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I asked Ewan a minute ago and he immediately said "lid" in the sort of tone that suggested it was a silly question, and there could be no other answer must be a Scottish thing.
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Ok I've also asked Stef and she has gone for lid also. We are a growing minority!
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I think she maybe called it a Top in one of the school series. I'd probably call it a Lid.Rob Houghton wrote:I want to ask you all a bit of a silly question, for research purposes, as I'm not sure what to call - this -
is it a 'cap' a 'lid' or a 'top'? Or maybe you call it something else?
I particularly would like to know if anyone remembers what Enid called it, if she ever mentioned one in a book?
Help appreciated!
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Just asked my parents (without any options, so as not to sway their answer) and one said 'lid', the other said 'top'.
I think I'd probably go for cap or lid myself. A pen top immediately makes me think of some novelty fruit and vegetable shapes that were all the rage back in the 1970s to put onto of pencils.
I think I'd probably go for cap or lid myself. A pen top immediately makes me think of some novelty fruit and vegetable shapes that were all the rage back in the 1970s to put onto of pencils.
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I would say "cap", but I'm Australian.
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
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Thanks Anita! That settles it then - 'cap' it is!Anita Bensoussane wrote:From the first chapter of The Mystery of the Secret Room:
"I think we ought to find a better name," said Fatty, putting the cap back on his fountain-pen.
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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It made me smile to see this topic now has its own thread, lol!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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Re: Pen Cap, Lid or Top?
I think it's great that this question has a liddle thread of it's own. However I've got confused, so can we re-cap, as I can't work out which suggestion came out top?
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Re: Pen Cap, Lid or Top?
As I said earlier, it is definitely a cap! I used to be a staff trainer in W H Smith's and held several sessions concerning fountain pens. The Parker 45 (the cap Rob provided looks very much like a 45) could be unscrewed into all of its parts - except for the clip!
I have looked online to see if i can find a diagram showing the parts, and this is quite a good one.
As well as using the more convenient ink cartridges (albeit a very expensive way of buying ink), there were one or two ways of filling the pen. A small lever on the barrel would fill the sac with ink, sometimes there was a plunger, and Parker even used a capillary action filling at one point. You just dipped the pen into the ink bottle, and it would fill itself!
I have looked online to see if i can find a diagram showing the parts, and this is quite a good one.
As well as using the more convenient ink cartridges (albeit a very expensive way of buying ink), there were one or two ways of filling the pen. A small lever on the barrel would fill the sac with ink, sometimes there was a plunger, and Parker even used a capillary action filling at one point. You just dipped the pen into the ink bottle, and it would fill itself!
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