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Thread #125224   Message #2771992
Posted By: MGM·Lion
23-Nov-09 - 02:36 PM
Thread Name: Shanty or Chantey?
Subject: RE: Shanty or Chantey?
I suspect that Q has confused Samuel Butler's Erewhon with the Lilliput section of Swift's Gulliver's Travels, in which the BigEnd/LittleEnd controversy leads to war between Lilliput & the neighbouring island of Blefuscu.