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Thread #8079   Message #1316868
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
04-Nov-04 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: New words for the 12 days of Christmas
Subject: RE: New words for the 12 days of Christmas
Resurrecting a five y'ar old thread for an old parody from eighteen hundred and forty-six.
Halliwell, "The Nursery Rhymes of England," 1846. Obviously the little kiddies in the nursery had a much better grasp of language then than they do now.

CCXXVII

One old Oxford ox opening oysters;
Two tee-totums totally tired of trying to trot to Tadbury;
Three tall tigers tippling tenpenny tea;
Four fat friars fanning fainting flies;
Five frippy Frenchmen foolishly fishing for flies;
Six sportsmen shooting snipes;
Seven Severn salmons swallowing shrimps;
Eight Englishmen eagerly examining Europe;
Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nonpareils;
Ten tinkers tinkling upon ten tin tinder-boxes with ten tenpenny tacks;
Eleven elephants elegantly equipt;
Twelve typographical topographers typically translating types.