OT: Bronx

[Joel S. Berson]

The Bronx? No, thonks! (Ogden Nash, “Geographical Reflections”).

As for "honks", I, effete Easterner like Laurence Horn,  rhyme it with "Bronx".

Google gives me:

 From "New York: Songs of the City":  "1 A taxi
siren ?o« r honks 1 Where we will settle in the Bronx / The ..."

 From "The Bard of the Bronx":
You can see him in Manhattan where the taxicab loudly honks,
He walks all around
In old New York town
He’s the crazy old bard from the Bronx.

And prose passages where it seems the writer has
selected the word "honks", where others might do,
because of its rhyme with "Bronx".

Joel

At 12/31/2007 04:09 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>I don't think most eastcoasters would rhyme
>"bronx" with "honks".  One's an ah-word, the other's an awe-word to me.
>
>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus
>"Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.
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> > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:09:19 -0500
> > From: Berson at ATT.NET
> > Subject: Re: OT: Bronx
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> > At 12/30/2007 09:03 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >>"Bronx" rhymes with "honks" (or "no thonx").
> >
> > What (else?) did the musical comedy lyricists rhyme "Bronx"
> > with? I've forgotten.
> >
> > Joel

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