Taken from today’s The Times obituary of Countess Katalin Banffy-Jelen, it’s almost impossible to read the sentence below without assuming a shocked Frankie Howerd face and shouting ‘Ooh no Missus!’…
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Thanks to this excellent book, which I read at least quarterly as a child, and probably annually now, it wouldn't occur to me to snarf at that sentence at all 😏
Interestingly, despite 'bar sinister' being used as a euphemism for being a bastard/illegitimate, there is no standard heraldic symbol for illegitimacy.
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