Comments on: Ritz

By: Sophie

Sophie — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:46:39 +0000

Well, the conclusion to that one, girls, must be : never trust a man with bad spelling.
And that goes for Nicolas too.

By: Terry Harris

Terry Harris — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:02:50 +0000

OK. Accept that. However…’illy sounds very old and deserves an archaic label’…The Columbian Guide to AMERICAN English 1993, Columbia University Press. Appropriate, I suggest for our ‘ladybirds’

By: Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:42:00 +0000

Thierry,

“Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival” (Thomas Jefferson). Source: The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

What an utter fool I must have been, I do apologize.

By: Terry Harris

Terry Harris — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:35:29 +0000

I am not sure what variety of the English language Alliance Lucy or Lucy claim to be familiar with, but such a word as “illy” certainly does not appear in either the Oxford Dictionary of English nor the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary of English. It is a classic example of how to bastadize (verb, pg.63., Oxford Pocket Dictionary) a language in the most illiterate, ugly and ill-founded way.

Terry Harris, Cambridge, England.

ps I would ask you to disregard the sanctimonious attitude of the two ‘ladybirds’ in question and suggest they get a life!

By: samantha

samantha — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:10:09 +0000

I too was surprised to see you in Glamour, just a month after I saw La Coquette. It did kind of freak me out though that I recognized the two of you straight away without having to read your names, considering the fact that I’ve never met either of you…