More Moore!

One of my most popular posts seems to be this one where I have a little fun with the Marianne Moore/Edsel connection. I'm actually rather delighted by this, as I'd presumed that she was out of fashion these days.

The other day, a kindly anonymous reader left a quick note to help improve the quality of the post:

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Marianne Moore clocks in at the Ford plant":

andante con moto.

not adante.

Fair enough, I thought, and corrected it.

Then I started to think: I copied that list from Moore's listing on Wikipedia - so I checked.

Moore, a loyal Ford owner, submitted numerous lists which included: "Silver Sword," "Thundercrest" (and "Thundercrester"), "Resilient Bullit," "Intelligent Whale," "Pastelogram," "Adante con Moto" "Varsity Stroke," and "Mongoose Civique."

Bearing in mind that Wikipedia is not where one goes for definitive answers, I went to the source, which as fate would have it was a brief article in The New Yorker:


My anonymous friend was right!

I have now updated the Wikipedia entry to reflect this!