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An enjoyable start to the EV year - with a little mischief in the preamble too (I think).

Mischievous indeed if, as
symmetry and cell count would suggest, the speaker is to be highlighted twice ?

A minor quibble is that the third of the spoken words has to be shortened by means of omitting its penultimate letter in order to comply with the number given in the first sentence of the preamble and I cannot find any version of the quote which features that abbreviation.

sonofrover, that's odd - the first source I looked at omitted that letter. Must have been a lucky googling.

An excellent puzzle; thank you, Skylark.

(Son of Rover, the standard version has that letter replaced by an apostrophe. Google with that in place and bingo.)

Thank you Jack. Found it. Am I right as far as my first observation is concerned?

Sonofrover, yes - the letter count (37 cells) matters....

Belated thanks for that malone.