"Discretion also governs another feature of the typically Wodehousean syntax – abbreviation. Found in both his fiction and his letters, terms such as “posish”, “eggs and b”, and “f i h s” (“fiend in human shape”) create a clubby feeling of intimacy between writer and reader."
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PG Wodehouse: a life in letters | Books | The Guardian
Who, but PG, would abbreviate “fiend in human shape”? Delightful.
11:01 pm • 24 December 2011