George Kearton > Quotes

“Shenanigans’ is an utterly delightful word. It sounds as if it should be of Irish origin, but the word comes from North America where it came into common usage in the early 1850’ s. It is a word which seems to exist only in its plural form; there are no records of singularity, no examples of ‘a shenanigan’.”
― George Kearton, A Nation Once Again

“The British defenders reacted to the Russian leaflets very differently; some, however, did complain that the shiny nature of the paper and lack of perforations made its use very difficult.”
― George Kearton, When The Hurly-Burly's Done