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I'm pretty sure the article is mistaken about the turtle being also-known-as Esio Trot. The phrase was used in the book solely as a magical incantation Poppy suggested to Silver to get her turtle to grow.

ESIO TROT is TORT OISE spelled backwards. Saxophobia 16:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Original story?

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This may have been based upon a story from R.W. Wood, who reportedly pulled a tortoise-swapping trick on his neighbor. It's mentioned at http://redteamjournal.com/2012/08/see-it-like-jones-would-acclimatization-by-slow-change/, cited as "Jones, Most Secret War, p. 234". --Bobbozzo (talk) 23:12, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have another citation for the same story: search for tortoise in https://archive.org/stream/EricMendozaEd.ARandomWalkInScience_201406/Eric%20Mendoza%20%5BEd.%5D%20-%20A%20Random%20Walk%20in%20Science_djvu.txt . I have a copy of that book from the 1970s so it definitely predates Dahl's story, but that doesn't mean that Dahl's story is based on R W Wood's antics. I'm not sure of the best way to phrase this in the article. Anyone else want to give it a go? Alsuren (talk) 21:35, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Professor R V Jones 'Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945'. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978. ISBN 0-241-89746-7 . Actually I think there are other earlier instances - it is an Urban Myth 86.187.171.160 (talk) 23:23, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]