Who is berk (Diaries)

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 107629

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:

> 
> In the UK, "diary", as you suggest, is used to describe a daily 
> record of one's doings (as in the case of Samuel Pepy's diary) and 
> also to indicate events and appointments. The word "journal" to the 
> majority of UK folk would probably indicate a magazine of some sort 
> (viz the Wall Street Journal).
> 
> Referring to Tom Riddle's diary as an example, if you were to go 
into 
> one of the big UK stationers - W.H.Smith for example - and ask for 
a 
> diary, you would be directed to a shelf of pre-dated books, often 
> formatted as a day per page or a week to a double page. I think the 
> practice of writing a "journal" is not practiced much and hasn't 
been 
> for many years. I doubt whether Tom Riddle kept much in his 
diary....

Carolyn:
ooh, Geoff, your restraint does you credit. I feel new members really 
ought to know that this little snippet generated an extraordinarily 
long thread last year; I'll just say two words: Vauxhall Road!

Start at 86517 and continue through to 86957 and beyond..I stopped 
keeping a note of the posts after a while.

Everything turns on the dates - just why the heck was a teenage 
trainee evil overlord buying a diary in an obscure, and very heavily-
bombed part of London, when his south London orphanage had been 
closed at the beginning of the war? [IF..he lived at that 
orphanage..by no means established]. Discuss..as they say. No 
satisfactory explanation has yet been found.

Carolyn
Who, inspired by Pippin's redoubtable example, just won't give up on 
a pet theory <g>