The Frumplingtons

“Confused or Confucius?” was a feature that I started a long time ago on an old blog. Heaven only knows why I haven’t the sense to leave it languishing in the archives, but I have nevertheless decided to revive it as an occasional feature on this blog.

At least it has the virtue of being sort of educational.

So here goes, with the first C or C posting…

The suffix ‘let’ is frequently used to signify something which is small, or a smaller version of something bigger.

For example:

• Piglet = a small or juvenile pig.
• Playlet = short, possibly one-act play.
• Rootlet = a small, secondary root on a plant.

All is clear so far. But then we come to:

“Pamphlet”. One of my favourite words.

But what the dickens is a pamph?