| Every schoolkid knows that an ordinary word repeated quickly becomes intensely odd. |
| All these celebrities with huge reputations – Robert Plant, Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel – and as he entered the room it was as if he was the headmaster and everyone else was just a silly schoolkid. |
| It is the latter with clear explanatory footnotes that would be read by a schoolkid in year eight today. |
| Ms. Wolitzer could make chalk-on-a-blackboard screeches with too much of this schoolkid affectation. |
