LOL, lovely!
But too late, methinks, as the Moose has gone on to mangling Shakespeare.
You do not appear to agree with Flanders and Swan about the qualities of
mud, glorious mud. Or is it just English beach mud you eschew?
Moose
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> On 04/03/2008, at 6:30 AM, Moose wrote:
>
>> ".. mud that makes up those beaches." is more graceful reading.
>>
>
>
> Tsk.
> Pedestrian.
> Requires linguistic moosification.
>
> "...the expanses of mud that serve for beaches in this region."
> "...the broad estuarine mudflats that masquerade as beach in those
> parts."
> "...the vista of exposed and glistening littoral ooze that claims the
> title of beach in these benighted zones."
> Now if you you roll over the original phrase, well, you'll just get a
> bit grubby.
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