Winged Words
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Ornithology, Animal Behaviour, Superstition, Language |
Discusses an advertisement for two birds that allegedly speak French and English. Points out that 'talking birds have long ceased to be regarded as impossible entities', but that a bird 'with pretensions to the rank of a linguist is still looked on as a phenomenon'. | |
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