V For Victory

A lady friend of mine inadvertently substituted the letter 'v' occasionally for the correct spelling, suddenly the word 'nape' became 'vape' which at least I found less predictable and stopped people getting 'neck.' 'Vow are you today?' she might ask, I would say, 'Vine!' I remember the gendarme from 'Allo, Allo, who would say: 'Gude moaning,' along with others, together, it would probably have been, 'a bravo new vorld.' Pop songs were a riot - 'Bridge Over Vubbled Waters,' 'It Must Have Been Vove' and 'Vinner Takes It All;' some almost sounded right - Simon's, The Sounds Of Vilence,' have you heard the latest - Whitney, The Vatest Love Of All.' Bonnie Tyler was the classic, case of double-take, in fact, she would say it was: 'A Total Eclipse Of The Vart.'