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  1. Jan 19, 2015 #1021
    Gauri03

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    They are obvious. :) If you know the correct names then the connection is right there on one of their Wikipedia pages.
     
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  2. Jan 22, 2015 #1022
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    @gauri03 -I'm terrible at this. I guessed Keats thanks to the Spanish steps and then am stuck between paa and sahitya academy. I think everyone else has the answer. So why not spell it out!
     
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  3. Jan 22, 2015 #1023
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    Keats is right. The other person is (or was) literally Amitabh Bachchan's Paa. :) Harivansh Rai Bachchan won the Sahitya Academy award for his contribution to Hindi literature, specifically his collection of poetry entitled 'Madhushala'. The connection between them, as @sokanasanah pointed out, is a little flimsy - At Cambridge, Harivansh Rai Bachchan wrote his PhD dissertation on Keats' works.
     
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  4. Jan 22, 2015 #1024
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    The Dr. can sense a bout of pedantry coming on. Hold me back ... stop me ... please ..... arrrrgh, no you failed ... rats!

    I have read 'Madhushala' and some of Harivansh Rai Bachchan's other poems, but beyond that I know little about him. Wikipedia says the thesis was on Yeats, not Keats. That's the 'onomatopoeic error' I was referring to. Your ears probably tricked you - unless you happen to know more arcane details about that thesis!thinkingsmiley

    BTW, you do know that 'pedant' is a rather unflattering term, right? Good thing that the good dr. overflows with the milk of human kindness.:rotfl
     
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  5. Jan 22, 2015 #1025
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    Well I'll be damned! Someone seems to have edited that page in the past few days, or I need to make the yearly trip to the opto!

    That puzzle turned out to be a bit of a damp squib. My apologies folks, for poor fact-checking. [​IMG]
     
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    @Aria - The lost sheep have found their way home. Where art thou?

    [​IMG]
     
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  7. Jan 22, 2015 #1027
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    Well, allow me to join you! [​IMG]Make that a double doh1.
    I meant to say 'near-homophone' (words that sound alike) not 'onomatopoeia' (words that sound like the thing - moo, cuckoo etc.)

    That was quite a brain-freeze. :hide:
     
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    Gauri03, Jan 22, 2015
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    Deleted ......................
    Clearing up clutter.
     
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