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Thread #110424   Message #2486414
Posted By: Paul Burke
06-Nov-08 - 07:11 AM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Expressions of surprise or disbelief used in Irlam's o'th' Height included "I'll go to our house" and "Well, I'll go to th' bottom of our stairs", and "Bugger me".

Maximal is of course not English, but Latin, as are mineral, arcade, column and corridor. So the poem becomes even more minimalist, and much better:

water of on the slopes,
goes them of the limestone,
to them of the Stained-glass of the ones,
puts to the earth the of garden,
in wood the ground in a crossing,
the roads of the stone, and has had
between the to fight of the

Woody, that only proves that Lancashire isn't the right north, and that mandotim isn't of a certain vintage!