Harrow0ing

[Eric Alan Weinstein]

At 14:31 20/01/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Murthy advises:
>"The name of the public (the English variety) school - as in Eton and
>Harrow, the Oxford and Cambridge of English public schools."
>
>Uh, no.  I knew about the school, but where does the place name itself 
>originate?
>
>Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
>
>

    Doesn't "Harrow" mean "North-West London semi-suburb dominated
by Kodak workers not yet promoted to Hemel Hempstead and mid-rank
London commuters suffering hair loss and deep boredom?" 
Or "Avoid the Harrow,"---usually screamed across platforms,
 meaning get on the faster train from Hertfordshire to Euston
which avoids stopping at Harrow and Wealdstone, thus saving---
wait for it---85 seconds!

Sitting ten miles farther out than Harrow in an even more boring 
yet somehow benign suburb,
   
Eric Alan Weinstein
Centre For English Studies
University Of London
E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk