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The Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny

by Steve Kaplan (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 25, 2019 05:21AM

“Punch’ being of course an Indian word, arriving in the English language via the Hindustani panch (five), a reference to the number of ingredients for the drink, which traditionally were (according to Hobson Jobson) ‘arrack, sugar, lime-juice, spice and water’.”
― William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

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