English poem search

[Joseph McCollum]

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 11:22:30 -0800 "A. Vine" <avine at ENG.SUN.COM> writes:
>All,
>A colleague asks:
>
>I once saw a similar poem [to "The Chaos"] that contrasted a host of
>noun-verb
>pairs that had
>different stress, such as "to record" and "a record", or "the produce"
>and "to
>produce". Has anyone seen a copy of that?
>
>Is anyone on this list familiar with that poem?
>Thanks very much,
>Andrea
>--
>Andrea Vine, avine at eng.sun.com
>Sun-Netscape Alliance i18n architect
>Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
>-- Dr. Dave Farber (father of SNOBOL and one of the creators of Token
>Ring)

I keep meaning to look this one up; try "The Game of Words" by Willard R.
Espy; there's a poem toward the back such as the one you describe.