Extra Points for Creativity

Posted in History,Humor,Language by Greg Ross on April 24th, 2006

“The boy who explained the meaning of the words fort and fortress must have had rather vague ideas as to masculine and feminine nouns. He wrote: ‘A fort is a place to put men in, and a fortress a place to put women in.’”

– Henry B. Wheatley, Literary Blunders, 1893