Re: Jaguars

Johnson, Anna wrote:

> When I was a child, I was unable to say that word, and hence I still refer
> to the vehicle as a Jagular /dZ@g.jI.lR/.
The very term that Winnie-the-Pooh uses (for the animal, not the
car, of course)

"Look Pooh!" said Piglet suddenly. "There's something in one of the Pine
Trees."

"So there is!" said Pooh, looking up wonderingly. "There's an Animal."
Piglet took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened.

"Is it One of the Fiercer Animals?" he said, looking the other way.
Pooh nodded.

"It's a Jagular," he said.

"What do Jagulars do?" asked Piglet, hoping that they wouldn't.

"They hide in the branches of trees, and drop on you as you go
underneath," said Pooh. "Christopher Robin told me."

"Perhaps we better hadn't go underneath, Pooh. In case he dropped
and hurt himself."

"They don't hurt themselves," said Pooh. "They're such very good
droppers." Piglet still felt that to be underneath a Very Good Dropper
would be a Mistake, and he was just going to hurry back for something
which he had forgotten when the Jagular called out to them.

"Help! Help!" it called.

"That's what Jagulars always do," said Pooh, much interested. "They call
'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you."

"I'm looking down," cried Piglet loudly, so as the Jagular shouldn't do
the wrong thing by accident. Something very excited next to the Jagular
heard him, and squeaked:

"Pooh and Piglet! Pooh and Piglet!" All of a sudden Piglet felt that it
was a much nicer day than he had thought it was. All warm and sunny---

"Pooh!" he cried. "I believe it's Tigger and Roo!"

"So it is," said Pooh. "I thought it was a Jagular and another Jagular."


        --A. A. Milne, _The House at Pooh Corner_ chapter 4

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