by "Ed Cryer" <ed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 23, 2008 at 05:05 PM
"Johannes Patruus" <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> It appears that Enoch Powell first uttered his Vergilian "rivers of
> blood" quotation in its original Latin during a speech at Walsall a
> few weeks before he notoriously repeated it in English at Birmingham.
>
> Journalist Chris Moncrieff is quoted as re****ting Powell having said
> that his "biggest mistake" had been to translate the passage into
> English.
>
> Source: http://tinyurl.com/5m4k9k
>
> Patruus
Ah! I find that hard to believe. It gave the tabloids a headline; but
the speech itself sounds even more inflammatory in these PC days than it
did back then.
This is it;
http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/rivers_blood2.html
The Queen once used the phrase "annus horribilis" to describe her year.
(1992, I think, when, on top of family divorces and break-ups, Windsor
Castle caught fire.) But the tabloids didn't need to have that
translated; most of them headlined with it in Latin!
Ed
