[Ads-l] I say "Lusitan-i-ay"

[Jonathan Lighter]

This one seems especially implausible - it's Latin - but make of it what
you will:

The poem is Sir Henry Newbolt's "Clifton Chapel" (1898):

‘Qui procul hinc,’ the legend’s writ,—
The frontier-grave is far away—
‘Qui ante diem periit:
Sed miles, sed pro patria.’

JL

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:42 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  >  And, yeah, ll.2 and 4 are supposed to rhyme.  More or less.
>
> Do they ever:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ghKLjcTv1o
>
> Go to  2:45.
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 11:10 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Not identical, but similar and older:
>>
>>      "I must suffer for deserting,
>>      “From the brig Niagara;
>>      "Read this letter, brothers, sisters,
>>      “’Tis the last you’ll hear from me.”
>>
>> From the Wilkes-Barre _Gleaner_ (June 16, 1815).
>>
>>
>> JL
>> And, yeah, ll.2 and 4 are supposed to rhyme.  More or less.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 5:01 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
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>>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Piqua, OH, is pronounced "Pickway."
>>>
>>>
>>> The late Harvey Fuqua, who sang lead with The Moonglows on the well-known
>>> R&B oldie, "Sincerely," pronounced his name as "Fewqway."
>>>
>>> Somewhere, back in the '40's, I read a description of pig-Latin in which
>>> "-a" was used in place of the "-ay" that I expected on the basis of
>>> having
>>> heard it on the playground. Since this was the only written - hence,
>>> canonical, of course - version of p-L that I'd ever seen, for years, I
>>> thought that I was somehow mishearing the "-a" as "-ay."
>>>
>>> Youneverknow.
>>> --
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>>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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>>
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>> truth."
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>
>
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