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Thread #109180 Message #2281132
Posted By: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
06-Mar-08 - 09:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Oh, ye Pedants, it's your day!
Subject: RE: BS: Oh, ye Pedants, it's your day!
Found this on an old Edison cylinder recorded by Epiphany Quimble and the Madhouse Four in 1908:
Come all ye fair and tender pedants, Take warning how you proof our speech-- Someone my steal your prized thesaurus And hide it quite beyond your reach.
Come all ye fair and tender pedants, Take warning how you parse our graphs; Someone may seize your dictionary And try to stuff it up your aphs.
Take care you fair and tender pedants, And do not count apostrophes; Mock not our dangling participles, But let us write just as we please.