MAY 10, a brief saga (word-pairs): "ECHOIC BINOMIALS"

PARODY-SONGLINK: These verses were originally conceived as poetic lyrics. However, they can, like almost all limericks, be easily sung using  certain well-known tunes.  For this effort, we have used as the base song Carole King's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", and changed the title of our song to something more catchy.

  Click HERE to access ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany the song ("AGAIN AND AGAIN") on your favorite instrument.

But, if you are interested only in the lyrics, continue with the presentation that follows ...  

 To review the poetic effusion that we have accumulated about binomial phrases, proceed to our blog "Edifying Nonsense", and enjoy the post  'Grandpa Greg's Grammar: Binomial Expressions'. Click HERE ! 

 There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !

To access the next 'brief saga' (June 2022), proceed to 'Canada'. 

To access the most recent previous 'brief saga' (April 2022), back up to 'Anglo-Latin and -Greek'.

 To access all of our 'brief sagas' by the year of their creation, click on your selection below.

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MAY 9, numbers: nine (9) ninety-nine

 You can review our cumulated nonsense about numbers by clicking HERE. 

MAY 8, reprehensible modern history: submarine warfare #1

Charleston South Carolina played a major role in the development of submarine warfare. The Cold War Submarine Memorial is located at Patriot's Point in Mt. Pleasant SC, on the eastern side of Charleston harbor. 

At our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense', you can review our entire collection of panels about the history of submarine warfare, as well as the lyrics to the parody-song "Relic Submarines". Click HERE. 

View the entire collection of poetic assertions on this topic (currently small, but growing) at our more encyclopedic blog 'Edifying Nonsense', by clicking HERE.

MAY 7, diagnostic imaging: Fluorine-18 PET

 

You can review all our verses on this intriguing topic by proceeding to a post on 'Edifying Nonsense' entitled 'Selected Topics in Diagnostic Imaging'. Click HERE!

MAY 6, birdlore: dawn chorus

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 You can view an encyclopedic collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post 'Poems about BIRDLIFE' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

MAY 5, mammalian wildlife: hippos (-otamuses vs -otami)

 The above is iambic verse; therefore it scans: 

'MOST of US to QUELL the FUSSes

PreSUME we're HIPpoPOtaMUSes'

HERE is a nonsense posting from last November that also features hippopotamuses; it has been written in more familiar anapestic (limerrhoidal) meter.

You could review the whole collection of illustrated verses about mammals (both domestic and exotic) by checking out the more extensive post on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !

MAY 4, pluralia tantum: 'imply/infer' (life-cycle celebrations)

 

Authors' Note: Plurale tantum, meaning plural only, is a Latin-derived term (with plural form pluralia tantum), for a noun that has no, or only a minimally used singular form, e.g. alms, auspices, and dregs. There are over one hundred of these in English. In other languages, such forms are commonly used to refer to ceremonial time-points on life's journey, but in English we have only the relatively archaic terms banns, nuptials, obsequies and remains, also last rites and final respects. Bryce's attempt to help his audience is incorrect, as these peculiarly plural nouns generally are paired with a plural verb-form.

 We have discussed in other verses here the relationship of pluralia tantum to medical nomenclature, to cooking ingredients and to fields of study.

upscale nuptials

Grandpa Greg asked us to pass on this message: "You can view the entire collection of verses about 'pluralia tantum' by clicking HERE."

MAY 3, wordplay map: sister-cities anagrams (35) SadRome/BlueParis

Authors' Note:  

barista: italian for bartender at an establishment serving either coffee-based drinks or alcholic beverages.

The story of the primal flood and Noah's Ark provides some opportunity for speculation, as here. What space for care and facilities for recreation were provided for the animals fortunate enough to be selected to board and avoid the environmental destruction that otherwise awaited them? These passengers were slated to become the basis for repopulation of the planet after the floodwaters receded. (One might also ask about the facilities for the animal husbandry crew, but that's another question.) Previous authors seem to have given little thought to these issues. 

The authors, on occasion, visit a waterside watering-hole, known as "Art's Bar", whose name, transmogrified, gave birth to the current fantasy.  

 If you liked this submission, you might want to refer to our entire collection of verses about human and animal denizens of bars, pubs and other watering-holes. Click HERE.

Followup illustration:

"Two by Two", Alice Anthony
Quilt exhibited at 
N.Charleston Convention Center, March 2022. 

MAY 2, trees: ponytail palm

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Uprooted Verse: 'Poems about Trees' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". 

MAY 1, defining opinion: hamuli (little hooks)

Authors' Note:

hamulus: (Latin) a little hook, plural = hamuli, with biologic implications discussed at OEDILF in a verse by Snowy Owl. Also, the hamate bone of the human wrist, bearing a prominent hook-like extension is a relatively frequent site of human fractures, as in this verse by your blogging team.

Remus: one of Rome's mythological founding twin infants, most often pronounced in anglo-Latin as REE-mus, but here, invoking more classic Latin, as RAY-mus.

 

Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.