What a great idea!Irene Malory Towers wrote:I am only 10 years too late but I thought I would resurrect this thread.
I wish I could find more FF, Adventure and R series threads from 2005 or whenever EBS was founded!
What a great idea!Irene Malory Towers wrote:I am only 10 years too late but I thought I would resurrect this thread.
It really annoys me when critics say that Blyton's stories are all the same.Irene Malory Towers wrote: T Themes – crimes of major importance – eg, industrial money forging, major defence secrets stolen, trafficking of guns, disposal of kings
Unsimple!Irene Malory Towers wrote:Thanks - I was even looking up the dictionary for words beginning with u - really I wanted to say complex and I am sure there is an opposite - un something which means not simple - but I could not see it.
Committed a few too many of them, have you, Viv??Viv of Ginger Pop wrote: According to TV drama, the only crime is murder - and I got bored with it 30+ years ago
Many a true word....!Viv of Ginger Pop wrote:Skeletons in the cupboards....
Well, it's not, really, to my knowledge — I just made it up on the spot!! But there's no reason why it can't be a new word — it follows a rule we all know (the "un-" prefix) and it's obvious what it means — so...Irene Malory Towers wrote:Courtney your post makes me laugh. I was looking for a work beginning with U that meant the opposite of simple but for some reason I did not realise that unsimple was a word ! Oh dear.
There were Google Buns in the Faraway Tree books, and the sweets that exploded in one's mouth were Toffee Shocks. There was also a clown called Google in Circus Days Again.Irene Malory Towers wrote:
To bring it back to EB I wonder if there is a word or a phrase that she invented that came into usage. Didn't she use googleberries or something like that for the hard sweets that exploded in your mouth in the faraway tree series and we certainly use google a lot. But I suppose that was a word before she used it. I daresay there is a thread on Enid Blyton words - I will have to look it up.