A nursery rhyme
Ed Keer
edkeer at YAHOO.COM
Tue Jul 20 18:30:38 UTC 2004
But don't you also say h[a]rrid for horrid? I do. No
way to make this rhyme work for me :(
--- Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> I grew up in NYC saying "forrid" and I still say
> "forrid".
>
> You don't have to be British.
>
>
>
> Wilson Gray <hwgray at EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
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> Subject: A nursery rhyme
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> There was a little girl
> And she had a little curl
> Right in the middle of her forehead.
> When she was good, she was very, very good.
> But when she was bad, she was
> horehead?/hoarhead?/whorehead? ...?
>
> -Wilson Gray
>
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