Hi everyone!
I got a quick question about LiaGB. Is the mistake in "Les Artes Modernes de Swindon" a deliberate one (I assume it is)? If so, am I missing a reference here? Sorry if I'm asking a question that was already asked a hundred times before!

Thanks!



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While we're at it, could someone please explain the title of chapter 7 (White Horse, Uffington, Picnics, for the Use of) for me? And one last question, how do you pronounce Devizes??
Cheers,
A

Qu 1. I'd say the error is deliberate but you're not missing anything - it's just supposed to be silly. It sounds a bit like the old "Franglaise" column in Punch. You might have noticed by now that the cultural aspects of Swindon are highly regarded by Jasper.

Qu 2. I actually googled the entire contents of the parentheses and got a huge swag of results including references to academic papers! The most revealing hit was 'Weird Wiltshire' which had a news report from 1983 when apparently there was quite a brouhaha going on about tourists clambering all over the site with their egg sandwiches and thermos flasks and the National Trust created a huge area specifically for folk to have picnics and view the horse without destroying it.
This story doesn't necessarily have anything to do with 'explaining' Jasper's title but it shows a possible context.
And I don't know if they have all sizes in Devizes or old geezers in Devizes either.

Qu2: since Thursday and Landon meet their old army friends there, Jasper seems to be parodying militaryspeak.