Hiberbole
Patricia Craig, 17 April 1986
Somerville and Ross: The World of the Irish R.M.
by Gifford Lewis.
Viking, 251 pp., £12.95, October 1985,0 670 80760 5 Show More
by Gifford Lewis.
Viking, 251 pp., £12.95, October 1985,
“... The first work of collaboration between Edith Oenone Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin (‘Martin Ross’) was a Buddh dictionary – ‘Buddh’ being the family word for members of the family, and the dictionary consisting of words peculiar to it. ‘Blaut’, for instance, in Buddh circles, meant ‘violently to express immoderate fury ... ”