“Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?”
“A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.”
“You’re in the country of the kangaroo and the duck-billed platypus, and you’re asking ‘why is it a mushroom? Because it just IS.”
“The ignorant pronounce it FroodTo cavil or applaudThe well-informed pronounce it FroydBut I pronounce it Fraud.”
“We may even find out why the duck-billed platypus.**Not why is it anything. Just why it is.”
“I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.”