The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
In defence of Oblong: It's a nicer word. It's more fun to say. Also:
c.1420, from L. oblongus originally "somewhat long," from ob "to, toward" + longus "long" (see long (adj.)).
it's older than rectangle by 150 odd years:
1571, from M.Fr. rectangle, from rect-, comb. form of L. rectus "right" + O.Fr. angle (see angle). M.L. rectangulum meant "a triangle having a right angle" (7c.).
And sounds less like 'rectum' than 'rectangle does'.
