Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!davy From: davy@pur-ee.UUCP (Dave Curry) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly? Message-ID: <3449@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 21:26:20 EST Article-I.D.: pur-ee.3449 Posted: Sun Oct 27 21:26:20 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 01:13:12 EST References: <1427@cae780.UUCP> <10600196@uiucdcs> <1937@bmcg.UUCP> <223@entropy.UUCP> <718@rtech.UUCP> Reply-To: davy@pur-ee.UUCP (Dave Curry) Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 25 Summary: While we're on the subject, this has always been one of my favorite comments on the English language: I came beneath a pint tree bough When I was searching for my cough. I could not reach the pine cones, though, The branch was high and I was lough. "Ah, me," I cried, with rueful laugh, "Would that I were a tall giraugh." Just then a wind came hurtling through, The branches cracked, so fierce it blough. This blast, so shrill it made me cough, And on it went with angry sough; I put my treasure in my mough And started home across the slough Forgetting what I'd come to dough. Bossy was standing by here trough; Did I mistake or did she scough? - Katherine Buxbaum --Dave Curry davy@purdue-ecn ihnp4!pur-ee!davy