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dafydd manton
08-06-2010, 06:24 PM
Said the schoolboy "enough is enough",
I can't get the hang of this stough.
Trying to spell
In English is Hell,
And I can't do it straight off the cough.

In a crazed and insane fit of pique,
I tore up my school-books last wique.
I was given the cane
Agane and agane.
Of the pane, then, I hardly dare spique.

Through my wordbook I valiantly plough.
If only I could work out hough
To spell all these words,
I'd fly with the bords,
And I'd do it all rite hear and nough. :cheers2::cheers2:
Delta40
08-06-2010, 06:26 PM
this is a marsta pees!
dafydd manton
08-06-2010, 06:28 PM
Than queue.
hillwalker
08-06-2010, 07:23 PM
Very Clever - apart from the typos of course

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Jerrybaldy
08-06-2010, 07:24 PM
forgive me dear dafyyyyyd. But I find this a tad offensive.
Maryd.
08-07-2010, 11:52 AM
Oh relax Jerry and have fun with it. Very witty and being an editor, I could correct all the spelling... But hey. Then it would lose its affect. Keep it real Daffyd.
PrinceMyshkin
08-07-2010, 02:49 PM
Reminds me of how GB Shaw, arguing for the rationalization of English orthography, demonstrated how "ghoti" could currently be read as 'fish'.
dafydd manton
08-07-2010, 04:04 PM
Thanks for the comments - much appreciated.

Hill - I don't want to worry you, but I actually got this won rite.
Mary - I'll do my best to keep it real.
Jerryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. So pleased you are offended. Dafyyyyyyydd. (It's what friends are for!)
Prince - I'd forgotten that one! Thanks for reminding me.
miyako73
08-07-2010, 04:22 PM
Reminds me of how GB Shaw, arguing for the rationalization of English orthography, demonstrated how "ghoti" could currently be read as 'fish'.

English, indeed, is the most complex of all languages.
Jerrybaldy
08-07-2010, 04:40 PM
I once used the ghoti as a fish argument when given the dreaded task of a presentation to an audience. Think I lost everybody, but that is more down to my presentation skills.

Anyway daf, I have had a word with the staff and we all agreed you gave us a good laff. To tell you straight maight. This must have took some putting together. Respect. (thought that sounds a bit street)
Jerry (hoodied)
dafydd manton
08-07-2010, 04:49 PM
My dear old thing, one is, without doubt, down wid da kids in da hood, as it were!