I happened to use the phrase ‘what every schoolboy knows’ the other day when referring to a US Supreme Court decision defining the tomato as a vegetable when, it is, in fact, a fruit!
I received this wonderful piece from Leslie Katz this morning. It is a good read. This is partly what the internet is about!
Having had more girls than boys (4 to 1) we always use the Molesworth formulation, “As any fule kno”.
Wilks
Excellent… I did not, of course, mean to exclude girls… it is an old saying!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Molesworth
for more on the origins of any fule kno