[PW] 'Ough' poem?
JT Thompson
jtthompson at eircom.net
Tue Oct 23 00:01:07 PDT 2007
Wombats, step up to the womplate and help: long ago, in a long
forgotten book there was an introduction which quoted a poem based on
the pronunciation of 'ough'.
It was in the voice of a Frenchman trying to learn English, and each
'ough' word rhymed incorrectly with the pronunciation of the 'ough'
word in the previous rhyme-line. It ended 'I killed him with a rough'
(to rhyme, of course, with 'lough').
Can anyone identify the poem?
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