[PW] Re: Distaff Math

[Michael Caricofe]

"Math" and "lath" seem to rhyme -- but that could just be me.

Michael

On 7/13/06, John Germain <jtg.germainsjy at localdial.com> wrote:
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> Love it, but where's the rhyme in "lath"?
>
> John Germain
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> John-
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> I love your Sister Agnes verse!
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> Shari Haber
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John P. Dyson" <dyson at indiana.edu>
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> Subject: [PW] Distaff Math
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>
> In the fifth grade, Sister Agnes
> taught us children Women's Math
> and measured our successes
> with a length of wooden lath.
> She would verbalize the tables
> but still conserve her powers:
> I recall that she drummed digits,
> but the ones she rapped were ours.
>
> John Dyson
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