(1/2) Extract from article bemoaning the use of complex vocab in children's books. An example given is "My hat is *cleated* and my trousers are ruined" from Percy & The Trousers in Henry the Green Engine.
Anyone ever come across an edition with this in? Every one I've seen uses the word *dented*.
Anyone ever come across an edition with this in? Every one I've seen uses the word *dented*.
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(Merseyside Daily Post, 20th June 1967)