They of seem so helpless....

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Peter P - 24 Jul 2004 16:43 GMT

I am reaing _The Wonderful Wizard of Oz_ and came across an expression
I am not failiar with.

"I always did like flowers," said the Lion. "They *of* seem so
helpless and frail. But there are none in the forest so bright as
these."

Can you tell me what role, if any, the word *of* plays in the
sentence?

Thank you.

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Einde O'Callaghan - 24 Jul 2004 21:41 GMT

> I am reaing _The Wonderful Wizard of Oz_ and came across an expression
> I am not failiar with.
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Can you tell me what role, if any, the word *of* plays in the
> sentence?

I think it's just a typographical error - it certainly doesn't make
sense otherwise.

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

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John Ings - 25 Jul 2004 02:26 GMT

>I am reaing _The Wonderful Wizard of Oz_ and came across an expression
>I am not failiar with.
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>Can you tell me what role, if any, the word *of* plays in the
>sentence?

Is this from
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.3/bookid.123%20/sec.8
or
http://www.literature.org/authors/baum-l-frank/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz/chapte
r-08.html
or
http://baum.thefreelibrary.com/The-Wonderful-Wizard-of-Oz/8-1
or
http://www.thrall.org/wizoz.htm

Apparently these and many other sites all have the same error,
probably a Optical Character Reader error from a scan done when this
book was formatted into an Electronic Book by the Deb-E-Books
Publishing Company

http://www.ebooksandbuys.com/wizoz.htm

I suspect there was a flaw in the print in the original source and the
OCR software read "often" as "of".

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Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / July 2004

They of seem so helpless....