Espresso, home

Mum just used all of the following words in one phone conversation:

• wan
• cordial (as an adjective)
• swanning

We also discussed the lyrics to Bryan Adams's Summer of 69. Complete the blanks in the following lyrics:

Me and some guys from school

Had a band and we tried real hard

____ quit, ____ got married.

Should've known we'd never get far.

The first blank is pretty universally Jimmy.

But the second one is a bit harder to pin down.

Get on Google. You'll find Jody, Joey, Johnny, Julie...who really knows who got married?

After a few dozen listens, I can hear either Joey or Jody - that slight "d" sound could just be a bit of Bryan Adams's spittle hitting the microphone.

But would he have said "some guys from school" if it was "Jody"? Is that a common male name in whatever bit of Canada Bryan Adams is from?

Oh, that brings us to the fourth Jane-Austen-spec word from that phone conversation. Julie can also be misheard as...

Jimmy quit, duly got married.

Duly. Adverb. "As might be expected or predicted".