Phrases/words that you love

[Flosshilde]

Rolltreppenbenutzungshinweise
Rindfleischetikettierungsberwachungsaufgabenbertra gungsgesetz

It's 'Phrases & words that you love', not 'Novels that you love'

[teamsaint]

It's 'Phrases & words that you love', not 'Novels that you love'

There should be a prize for anybody who can fit Mercia's word into a limerick.

[mercia]

Rolltreppenbenutzungshinweise
Rindfleischetikettierungsberwachungsaufgabenbertra gungsgesetz

tips for using the escalator
beef labeling oversight transfer law

[Anna]

tips for using the escalator

There was a young lady from Kent
To find tips on using the escalator she went
To Margate and Chatham
They said ‘They don’t like it up ‘em'
So, instead of coming, she went.

Sorry!

[vinteuil]

ANNA!!!

.

[teamsaint]

Cousin Reggie who adores the sea
Live in the midlands unfortunately

He surfs down escalators in departments stores
And swims in the High St on all of his fours.

Sunbathes on the pavement
Paddles in the gutter
(I think our Reggie's
a bit of a nutter).

Roger McGough.

[Serial_Apologist]

I wish I were a caterpillar
Life would be a farce
I'd scramble up the twigs and trees
And slide down on my hands and knees

Sorry - off-topic

[mangerton]

There should be a prize for anybody who can fit Mercia's word into a limerick.

I hope this is the word you meant. It certainly has the limerick scansion.

Rolltreppenbenutzungshinweise
Is a word of considerable siz-e.
When writing it down
I said with a frown
Out of me teamsaint's taking a ris-e!

[teamsaint]

I hope this is the word you meant. It certainly has the limerick scansion.

Rolltreppenbenutzungshinweise
Is a word of considerable siz-e.
When writing it down
I said with a frown
Out of me teamsaint's taking a ris-e!

As if I would ...all in the cause of Art.
How lovely to have been just a very small part of the process !!

Anyway, I think german is great....spending what time i can reading translations of german lyrics for Brahms choral works. Bonkers but beautiful !

Great stuff, Mangers !!

Edit, FF hasn't authorised a prize, but I am sure she has something in the FoR3 cupboard !

[Anna]

There was a young lady from Leith
Confused by the labelling of beef
She tested the gonads and guts,
And other unmentionable stuffs,
And simply said. Good Grief!!

[Lateralthinking1]

... but norange is etymologically correct!

It derives from Arabic naranj, Persian narang. The initial n in French and English was absorbed in the indefinite article - une narange ; a norange. And in Spanish - it is still - naranja ...

The same thing happened to adder - originally [Anglo-Saxon] nædre, [ Middle English]naddre ; a nadder - an adder

It worked the other way with newt originally an ewt, an evet, an eft

Oh yes. This goes back many years but some of them live in Spain now so that too seems fitting.

[cloughie]

There was a young lady from Leith
Confused by the labelling of beef
She tested the gonads and guts,
And other unmentionable stuffs,
And simply said. Good Grief!!

Anna I 've got to say that is awful rhyming for a limerick, the syllable counts a bit dodgy also but it is amusing!

[kernelbogey]

Anna I 've got to say that is awful rhyming for a limerick, the syllable counts a bit dodgy also but it is amusing!

There was an old man of Japan
Who never could learn how to scan:
He got on fine
Until the last line,
Where he always had too many syllables in hand.

[Nick Armstrong]

There was an old man of Japan
Who never could learn how to scan:
He got on fine
Until the last line,
Where he always had too many syllables in hand.

Some unbelievably dodgy limerick scansion has indeed invaded this thread!!

As regards limericks and wrenching things back to Radio3-related matters, I do love this one:


The critics' acclaim for Joyce Hatto
Had reached an impossible plateau;
Her falling from grace
Was quite clearly a case
Of her spouse over-egging the gateau.

[kernelbogey]

The critics' acclaim for Joyce Hatto
Had reached an impossible plateau;
Her falling from grace
Was quite clearly a case
Of her spouse over-egging the gateau.