QUIZ: kidlit is a genre dead as dead can be!

yes i think regulus is the most tricky: it’s st exupery’s “petit prince” and it more normally means a “minor king” or “kinglet” (regulus = diminutive of rex. a king)

i forgot about “virent ova viret perna” being hard bcz this was the one i saw in foyles’ linguistics dept (looking for something w.vick) which made me hunt them down — it kinda translates as “they glow green: EGGS! it glows green: HAM!!” (ie “to be green” is a pretty gutsy one-word verb in latin, not a mimsy copulative-plus-adjective like we have in english)

ie “virent ova” and “ova virent” means exactly the same thing, except the first keeps you in (micro)suspense as to what it is that’s going be being green

not samsum sadly — i peeked at the time and remember thinking “ooh clever” but forgot it since :(