by neufer » Sun Sep 27, 2020 7:45 pm
De58te wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:41 pm
I am kinda puzzled about Dorothy since her Auntie Em's farm was in Kansas so after that twister, Dorothy isn't in Kansas anymore. Perhaps you meant she is in Oklahoma now, since Oklahoma has been getting a lot of twisters lately as well. Is the shortform for Oklahoma, O.Z.?
The Land of OZ is shaped like Kansas
(or possibly Colorado, South Dakota or
Pennsylvania.)
(No one would
ever dream of going to Oklahoma voluntarily!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Oz wrote:
<<Wizard of Oz told Ozma that his birth name was Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs, which, being a very long and cumbersome name, and as his other initials spelled out "PINHEAD," he preferred to leave just as O.Z. [Ozma] relates that the country was already named Oz (a word which in their language means "great and good"), and that it was typical for the rulers to have names that are variations of Oz. The people probably saw his initials on his balloon and took them as a message that he was to be their king.
It has been speculated that Oz was named after the abbreviation for ounce, in the theory that Oz is an allegory for the populist struggle against the illusion (the wizard) of the gold standard [e.g., Dorothy has silver slippers in the book]. Others have said that Oz stands for New York, since the letters of the alphabet before O and Z are N and Y respectively [e.g., I.B.M. => H.A.L.]. However, this works just as well for
Pennsylvania, because the letters following O and Z are P and A. Several of Baum's fairy stories were situated on the
Ozark Plateau, and the similarity of name may not be a coincidence.>>
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I am kinda puzzled about Dorothy since her Auntie Em's farm was in Kansas so after that twister, Dorothy isn't in Kansas anymore. Perhaps you meant she is in Oklahoma now, since Oklahoma has been getting a lot of twisters lately as well. Is the shortform for Oklahoma, O.Z.?[/quote]
The Land of OZ is shaped like Kansas
(or possibly Colorado, South Dakota or [b][u][color=#0000FF]Pennsylvania[/color][/u][/b].)
(No one would [b][u]ever[/u][/b] dream of going to Oklahoma voluntarily!)
[quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Oz]
<<Wizard of Oz told Ozma that his birth name was Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs, which, being a very long and cumbersome name, and as his other initials spelled out "PINHEAD," he preferred to leave just as O.Z. [Ozma] relates that the country was already named Oz (a word which in their language means "great and good"), and that it was typical for the rulers to have names that are variations of Oz. The people probably saw his initials on his balloon and took them as a message that he was to be their king.
It has been speculated that Oz was named after the abbreviation for ounce, in the theory that Oz is an allegory for the populist struggle against the illusion (the wizard) of the gold standard [e.g., Dorothy has silver slippers in the book]. Others have said that Oz stands for New York, since the letters of the alphabet before O and Z are N and Y respectively [e.g., I.B.M. => H.A.L.]. However, this works just as well for [b][u][color=#0000FF]Pennsylvania[/color][/u][/b], because the letters following O and Z are P and A. Several of Baum's fairy stories were situated on the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozarks]Ozark Plateau[/url], and the similarity of name may not be a coincidence.>>[/quote]