The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157237   Message #3709807
Posted By: Airymouse
18-May-15 - 06:03 PM
Thread Name: Grammar for Songwriters
Subject: RE: Grammar for Songwriters
For poor on'ry people like you and like I...
I wonder as I wander out under the sky.
As you might surmise, I don't like this rhyme. I'm not fussing about "on'ry" though: I don't even know what it means. I'm guessing it is a metathetic transformation of "ornery," with a syllable left out (Hyphaeresis). But why would someone, presumably a devout Christian, call me ornery, when he doesn't even know me?