What does Christmas represent to the WW?
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at aol.com
Tue Apr 6 06:51:01 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 95291
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67"
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> Carol:
> He didn't know where to place the comma, though--or JKR and her
editor
> didn't. It's "God rest ye merry, gentlemen (or hippogriffs),"
not "God
> rest ye, merry gentlemen (or hippogriffs)."
>
> Carol, betting that Sirius didn't know what "God rest ye merry"
means
Geoff:
True. If he were to sing it in modern English, it would be "God keep
you happy, hippogriffs"
:-)
Just in passing, I feel that, in message 95267, my quote was badly
snipped in that it seems to imply that I was agreeing with Kneasy. if
you read my full comment in message 95226, I most certainly wasn't.
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