macaronic wordplay

[Bruce Hunter]

Or, when one sees a vertical post firmly anchored in the ground, and it
is labeled...

Toti
ehor
sesto

one knows it's a hitching post for your equine?

V/R
Bruce Hunter

Mark Mandel wrote:
> I guess it's because I learned my Latin as (pause to count on fingers)
> my 3rd language, in H.S., with Classical pronunciation. And living in
> Mass. for 20 years I was plenty exposed to Harvard and their shield
> saying
>  VER
>   IT
>  AS
> which I always thought of with the /w/.
>
> That shield probably also conditioned me -- and p'raps Ms. Dickinson
> as well -- to breaking it up that exact way (which I didn't think to
> mention before).
>
> Mark Mandel

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