Dot Wordsworth

Mind Your Language | 30 July 2005

A Lexicographer writes

issue 30 July 2005

‘It’s a Welsh rare bit,’ said my husband carefully, staring at some toasted cheese on toast. What, I asked him, would a ‘rare bit’ be like that wasn’t Welsh? He was unable to come up with a satisfactory answer.

It is strange that people not only insist on spelling Welsh rabbit as Welsh rarebit, but also think that by doing so they are performing some sort of explanatory task.

Dear old Hannah Glasse knew all about it.

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