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From: davy@pur-ee.UUCP (Dave Curry)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly?
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Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 21:26:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 27 21:26:20 1985
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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
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