Article about English verb thesis misjudged poem with notorious verb (14)
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2024-10-04
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THE (the definite article), around an anagram (misjudged) of E (abbreviation for English) + VERB THESIS . Title of a poem by Philip Larkin (the phrase is a quotation from another poem by Robert Louis Stevenson). Phi is referring to the “notorious” first line of the Larkin poem, which uses the F-word as a verb.