"I think I'll miss you most of all." Thus Dorothy says goodbye to the Scarecrow. "I your wizard, per adua ad alta…" The actual Latin phrase is "Per ardua ad astra" ("through difficulties to the stars"), the motto of Royal Air Force. Well, the Wizard didn't say they were good brains.Ĩ. The actual theorem holds that the sum of the squares on the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. "The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side." Thus the Scarecrow, after receiving his brains, triumphantly recites the Pythagorean theorem - wrongly. Unless, that is, you know that it referred to the Jitterbug, the stinging insect that sends Dorothy and her friends jiving and trucking in what was supposed to be the film's big "jazz" number, "The Jitterbug." It was cut after previews.ħ. "I've sent a little insect on ahead, to help take the fight out of them." That line, from the Wicked Witch of the West, makes absolutely no sense. Only readers of the book will recognize the magic golden cap with which the Witch summons her flying monkeys.Ħ. When her dastardly poppy scheme fails, the Wicked Witch can be seen throwing a gold-colored something-or-other across the room. So why do the characters in "The Wizard of Oz" refer repeatedly - in dialogue and song - to "The Wizzid"? Could it be because Ray Bolger, who plays the Scarecrow, and Jack Haley, who plays the Tin Man, were both from the Boston area? Perhaps the Wizzid doesn't live fah from Hahvad Yahd.ĥ. Most of us pronounce the word "wizard" as if it had an "a" and an "r" in it - because it does.
It's a mashup word, a combination of "slut" and … never mind.Ĥ, Off to see the Wizzid. The closest we got is the obscure "slicht," a Scottish regionalism for "slight." However, since "The Wizard of Oz" was made, the word "slitch" has come into use in the hip-hop community.
"The house began to pitch, the kitchen took a slitch," chirrup the Munchkins, as they celebrate Dorothy's lethal, witch-crushing arrival in the land of Oz. Only what is a "slitch"? We looked it up online, we rifled through the dictionary. The word appears not to exist. More: 'Wicked Witch' intrigues Vernon social studies classesģ.
More: Witches on film, from the cute to the horrific
#WIZARD OF OZ HANGING TV#
More: 'The Wizard of Oz' made its TV bow 60 years ago Nov. What contraption? Cut from the film is a scene where Hickory is shown working on a "wind machine" to prevent cyclones (spoiler alert: it doesn't work). It's here that his line occurred: "Now this is a machine with real heart." "I saw you tinkering with that contraption," Aunt Em scolds Hickory.
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