| Description Of Item | Two clipped articles from the Observer in a scrapbook from the collection of John Ritchie, both responding to different articles published by Mr Cecil Binney on ‘Tabooed words’. The first is by C.A. Whitton, who further expounds on the superstitious connotations attached to weasels, especially in the utterance of the word. The second is by Lawrence Alastair Stoughton Holbourn, who discusses the superstition that it is bad luck to utter the word ‘woman’ at sea, or have a woman on board. |