Talk:Aunt Dahlia
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Source material for description of voice?
editRe: "[S]he tend[s] to address one as if half a mile away, and can emit a yelp that could be heard in the next county":
Besides being "unencyclopedic" in tone, this sentence sounds lifted from a passage somewhere in Wodehouse's work, although its grammatical errors and inconsistencies suggest some degree of intentional or unintentional alteration. (Explanation: errors introduced during retyping as opposed to copying/pasting?)
I've flagged this sentence as "citation needed" both because the quotation needs verification and because it seems a bit unfair to Wodehouse to take credit for his words even as one uses/parrots them to describe one of his characters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.176.7.3 (talk) 22:12, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- I have rewritten the sentence to base it on descriptions of Aunt Dahlia found in the canonical works "Bertie Wooster Sees it Through" and "The Code of the Woosters."
- An interesting thing is that the sentence (as quoted in the first line of this section) is similar to one found in the James Oliver Curwood novel, Nomads of the North:
- "If Noozak had lost a part of her strength in her old age her voice, at least, was still unimpaired, and such a spasm of outcry as she emitted could have been heard at least half a mile away. Note this novel also uses the word yelp 12 times. Sp3lly (talk) 11:57, 4 May 2013 (UTC)