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contract the que . Clearly, the same rule ought to apply to qui .
    â€œMakes no nevermind wot you say, it’s only a whole lot more rules. And who is it’s goin’ to make sure ’t all makes sense?”
    â€œDoes we even have de right to screw around wid French like dat?”
    128.30.10
    Chiac
    Twelve cubed (i.e., 12³, or 12 × 12 × 12) seems to evoke an ample and durable plenitude, more than 12 multiplied merely once by itself (12², or 12 × 12). The idea of 1,728 fragments, rather than 144, promises a definite breadth and strength.
    129.12.2
    Structure
    Music played an important role in the Babar’s success. Carmen and Josse had asked several talented disc jockeys and other musical connaisseurs to tape several hundred hours of music for those evenings when they had no live music. New compilations were constantly being added. Most of the DJs offered their services without charge.
    â€œIt’s good practice for me. You can buy me a beer sometime.”
    â€œEh! More ’n one. I’ll be openin’ up de opposite of a tab for you at the bar.”
    130.6.3
    The Babar
    The vowel u takes the prize when it comes to inspiring no colour: 5 of the 102 participants in the survey claimed they imagined the u without any colour. These respondents were nevertheless fewer than the 16 who saw it as red, 14 as yellow, 14 as green, 12 as purple, 12 as blue, 10 as orange, 9 as brown, 2 each as black, white, grey, and turquoise, 1 as pink, and 1 as uranium.
    131.3.5
    Statistics
    â€œTiddly-tiddly-tat yer pointy pointy hat!”
    Marianne giggled. Terry did it again:
    â€œTiddly-tiddly-tat yer pointy pointy hat!”
    Again Marianne giggled, and Terry did it again, this time modifiying the intonations:
    â€œTIDdly-TIDdly-tAT yer pointy pointy hAT!”
    He could have gone on like this forever. Marianne was not a difficult child, and easily amused. For this very reason, Terry and Carmen had to be careful not to neglect her, compared to Étienne who never let you forget him.
    â€œMarianne, how’d you like to take a car ride with Dad? Eh, just Marianne ’n Dad in de car?”
    â€œI wanna go too.”
    â€œNope, you came along yesterday, didn’t ya. Marianne’s turn today.”
    Ã‰tienne, too, had to get used to the fact that Marianne occupied a place of her very own, as well.
    132.134.1
    Marianne
    Second coincidence: in Le Nouveau Petit Robert dictionary, the definition of the word auburn refers us back to the word acajou , French for “mahogany.” In the same volume, directly above the word acajou one finds the word acadien . And stranger still, the mascot of the Acadian Games was called Acajoux. Something to think about.
    133.17.2
    Chance
    For fun, two friends of the Babar who’d read the brief article in L’Acadie nouvelle began to interview the customers around them.
    â€œAnd do you imagine the letter a any particular colour?”
    â€œYellow.”
    â€œAnd e ?”
    â€œNaw.”
    â€œHow about i ?”
    â€œOrange like . . .”
    â€œAnd o ?”
    â€œBlack fer sure.”
    â€œAnd u . . .”
    â€œPurple-ish . . .”
    â€œAnd y . . .”
    â€œWhite.”
    â€œWhite?! G’wan wid choo, now dat’s unusual.”
    134.6.5
    The Babar
    Among other designers to have made their mark on the history of letter forms, we can include Fournier, William Caslon, John Baskerville, and Giambattista Bodoni. But this list is far from exhaustive. The history of the alphabet, like that of writing, belongs to civilizations rather than individuals.
    135.10.12
    Typography
    â€œPascal de lamb was a lamb like all de udders: he was wee an’ curly an’ innocent.”
    â€œWot’s innocent?”
    â€œMeans ee was nice like, not a mean bone in ’is body.”
    â€œWot’s a mean bone den?”
    â€œDat’s just an expression. Folks been saying it so long nobody knows where it comes