From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!uw-june!palmer
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: interlingual puns
Article-I.D.: uw-june.334
Posted: Sat Mar 12 12:04:25 1983
Received: Sun Mar 13 14:14:45 1983
References: floyd.1250 uw-beave.393


	There is a book out written in Pseudo-French called
"Mot d'Heures, Grosses Rames" (Book of the hours, branch and leaf) or
something like that.  Read the title in French to figure out what it is
about.
	It is a book of poems, the first of which goes:

		Un Petite, d'Un Petite

	Un petite, d'un petite,
	S'etonne aux Halles,
	Un petite, d'un petite,
	A! Degree tes a fallent...

	Which, in french, is pronounced similarly to

	Humpty Dumpty
	Sat on a wall...

	The book is written by someone called Luis d'Antin Van Rooten (sp)
and may still be available at book stores.

		David Palmer