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GUEST,Darowyn | Macaronachas / Macaronic Songs. Language mixing (138* d) | RE: Macaronachas / Macaronic Songs. Language mixing | 11 May 06 |
On the off-chance that somebody might be able to trace the source, I remember reading somewhere that the nursery rhyme "Hickory,Dickory Dock" was a macaronic verse, and that the apparently nonsense words were either Basque or (more romantically) "the secret language of the Witches" |