Sunday 25 January 2015

Twoth

Twoth: noun. The word twoth has two commonly used meanings:
1. One is an alternative way to say "second," but this sense of the word can not be used in the middle of the words "first" and "third." Instead, twoth should either be used alone or in between the words oneth and threeth.
2. Another meaning of the word twoth is a pair of teeth grown together. Often, in slang terms, these teeth are called Siamese teeth.    

XV

And so it happened that Lady Catherine, Mr and Mrs Collins, Mr and Mrs Darcy, Mr and Mrs Horst and Mr and Mrs Hurst were in their giant box, prepared to begin their journey through space and a little time.

"I will miss my family though," said Elizabeth, "I hope they have a postal service where we're going."

Suddenly, there was a bang and then a poof accompanying the appearance of a giant cloud inside the box. As the cloud subsided, Mr and Mrs Bingley, Mr and Mrs Bennet, Mr and Mrs Wickham, Mary and Catherine appeared. No one seemed to understand how they got there, but this quite unexpected fortunate event saved the authors of this story a good deal of time trying to invent a way to get all of these characters together into one giant box.  

Seeing the correlation between Lizzy's wish and her baffled family's appearance, Mr Darcy exclaimed "I will miss my little sister" and to the surprise of all, Georgiana Darcy flew in with another bang and cloud.

Picking up the tempo, Mr Hurst - with quite atypical speed and sharpness - shouted "And man will I miss my secret stash of whiskey," after which everyone found themselves knees deep in bottles.

"Well if this works," said Mrs Collins staring intently at her beloved, "then I certainly will not miss my husband." However, to the surprise of no-one, Mr Collins did not disappear with a reverse cloud and reverse bang.

"Ha-ha" said Mrs Collins nervously, "Just joking, my dear."   

"Do not worry," smiled Mr Collins, "If there is one thing we share, it is that wonderful sense of humour of ours."

"Yes," Mrs Collins agreed hastily. "Well it was worth a shot," she added under her breath. 

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