Embarrassing revelations

[igenlode]

You know you've been watching too much Voiceplay when you have a dream about Geoff Castellucci helping turn out spare keys for an imaginary holiday cottage using a lathe on your back lawn... (Not sure why my subconscious cast him as the handyman type -- must have been the Sixteen Tons video!) I believe they were actually level crossing keys, as it was supposed to be a converted station house :-)

(I was taken aback to discover that the average American apparently isn't acquainted with the name 'Geoff' and can't pronounce it; I didn't realise that Webster's spelling changes had gone as far as to re-render 'Geoffrey' as 'Jeffery' for the US market...)

Comments

[watervole]

I must admit that the American spelling makes far better sense.

[igenlode]

I assume we got the name straight from the Norman Geoffroi -- but to be fair, I do recall the famous 18th-century poem "For I will consider my cat Jeoffry", so it may be one of those words that got consciously mediaevalised by over-enthusiastic antiquarians at a later stage...