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‘JIFFLING THE JOBBLE’, OR THE USE OF NONSENSE AND OTHER DEVICES IN THE TEACHING OF READING
Author(s) -
O'NEILL ROBERT
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-971x.1982.tb00479.x
Subject(s) - yesterday , nonsense , reading (process) , front (military) , psychology , media studies , literature , history , visual arts , art , linguistics , philosophy , sociology , engineering , physics , astronomy , gene , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry
The following story contains a number of words which do not exist. ‘What on earth have they to do with the development of reading skill?’, you may ask. Quite a lot, as you will discover if you try to read the whole story before deciding what the nonsense words mean. Yesterday evening I jiffled a very bad jobble on my way home. A car in front of me was yabbling left when a car coming from the opposite boondrom jaffled into him. The driver of the car in front of me tried to kibble his brakes but there just wasn't enough time. There was a terrible hummelling and jummelling of metal when the other car ran into him. Both cars were terrible blandraggled in the jobble. I didn't stop to see if anybody had been killed. I hope not.