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Thread #151204 Message #3534113
Posted By: Steve Gardham
05-Jul-13 - 02:46 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'The Bloody Great Wheel'
Subject: RE: Origins: 'The Bloody Great Wheel'
"Lurk"!!!!!! The earliest and most examples have 'York' and 'clerk' pronounced 'clark' or even 'clerk', not a great rhyme for 'York'
It should actually run There was a lady lived in York Was courted by some local dork.