ghughesarch
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Sad to see that Iona Opie, half of the duo Peter and Iona Opie, tireless cataloguers of the folklore and riddles and rhymes of the playground, has died, albeit at a splendid age.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/25/iona-opie-obituary
and this sentence from the obituary should be valued:
"Since they had no academic background, the Opies did not know they lacked proper qualifications, or how to publish within academic conventions; the keeper of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, discovered them collecting riddles, and recommended them to the Oxford University Press."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/25/iona-opie-obituary
and this sentence from the obituary should be valued:
"Since they had no academic background, the Opies did not know they lacked proper qualifications, or how to publish within academic conventions; the keeper of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, discovered them collecting riddles, and recommended them to the Oxford University Press."
