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Mrs. Ariel Hoagy wrote an article ("Listening to Architecture") in a 1945 edition of this magazine [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 36].
A plinth is a square base or pedestal. Bowen notes that in America the word is confined to art and architecture history, "but you many be interested to know that the Brits use it as the word for the base (sometimes sold separately) on which a phonograph turntableis mounted. I used to read British hi-fi magazines in the 70s and always found this word slightly disconcerting when I encountered it. I mean, a plinth should have a statue of a discus thrower or something like that on top, not a ruddy turntable."
The surname Hoagy is, in some areas, the preferred term for the long Italian sandwich known elsewhere as a hoagie, hero, torpedo, grinder, submarine, or simply a sub. |
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