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What is intriguing with this dog-bites-man story, however, is that it started with Wen Wei Po.

At any rate, he will find no spirit of this description in what Cobbett satirically termed “the Wen.”

Shrewsbury was one of the gayest of those many provincial capitals “out of which the great wen of London has sucked all the life.”

Set down, Sir, ve make no extra charge for settin' down, as the king remarked wen he blowed up his ministers.'

Though not without fame in the field, Colonel Wen's main claim to honour lay in the high degrees he had taken in the examinations.

Wen jemand lobt, dem stellt er sich gleich—Every one puts himself on a level with him whom he praises.