Trivial note o pronunciation: forehead

[Bill Palmer]

or, "when she was good, she was very, very good, and when she was bad she
was better"

A line from a contemporary country song, but maybe didn't originate there.

Bill Palmer

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> Dave Hause said:
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>>Why, it must, for the rhyme to work:
>>There was a little girl
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> But there's an a alternative, which I have been known to recite, albeit
> while under the influence of something or other:
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> When she was good, she was very, very good,
> But when she was bad she was 'whore-head'.
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> (sorry...)
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> Geoff
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