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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on May 20, 2017, 08:41:06 PM

Title: Another way of looking at films . . .
Post by: Mince on May 20, 2017, 08:41:06 PM: Mary Poppins: the 'spoonful of sugar' is actually an hallucinogenic drug.
Title: Re: Another way of looking at films . . .
Post by: Roger Kettle on May 20, 2017, 09:50:21 PM: That would certainly explain Dick Van Dyke's performance.
Title: Re: Another way of looking at films . . .
Post by: Roger Kettle on May 20, 2017, 10:00:57 PM: Quote from: Mince on May 20, 2017, 08:41:06 PM
Mary Poppins: the 'spoonful of sugar' is actually an hallucinogenic drug.
This is interesting. I've always thought that the use of "an" before a word that starts with an "h" was an English dialect thing. I really don't know. Is this actually correct?
Title: Re: Another way of looking at films . . .
Post by: Mince on May 20, 2017, 11:13:34 PM: I did try it both ways, and the use of 'an' prevents the hiccup before 'hallucinogenic'.
Title: Re: Another way of looking at films . . .
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on May 21, 2017, 11:58:06 AM: You have to wonder how little Michael turned out, and how much worse it could have been had he not encountered Mary Poppins...
Title: Re: Another way of looking at films . . .
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on May 21, 2017, 11:39:00 PM: Quote from: Roger Kettle on May 20, 2017, 10:00:57 PM
Quote from: Mince on May 20, 2017, 08:41:06 PM
Mary Poppins: the 'spoonful of sugar' is actually an hallucinogenic drug.
This is interesting. I've always thought that the use of "an" before a word that starts with an "h" was an English dialect thing. I really don't know. Is this actually correct?

An how would I know?
Title: Re: Another way of looking at films . . .
Post by: Mince on May 21, 2017, 11:54:45 PM: Quote from: Sandy Buttcheeks on May 21, 2017, 11:39:00 PM
An how would I know?

Because you're wearing that silly flat black hat?