Word War I

margaret · Post by **margaret** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:54 pm

Pussycat pussycat, where have you been?
I've been to London to look at the queen
pussycat pussycat
what d'you do there?
I frightened a little mouse
on the chair

Is this almost right Pete?

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:00 pm

Et qui rit des cures d'Oc
De Meuse raines, houp de cloques.
De quelles loques ce turque coin,
Et ne d'anes ni rennes
Ecuries des cures d'Oc

That's all for now, but I do have many more from the Mots D'heures: Gousses, Rames

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:02 pm

Margaret!!!

Thankyou thankyou thankyou

I am not alone

Now can the others be worked out???

Pete

Heretic · Post by **Heretic** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:04 pm

Pete, please spare us that.
French is bad enough anyway.
Pseudo French is a horror too far.

margaret · Post by **margaret** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:12 pm

Hickory dickory dock
the mouse ran up the clock
etc.

Jo · Post by Jo » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:41 pm

Pete - I suspected what your rhymes were about - but I still couldn't make sense of them - perhaps because my French pronunciation leaves a lot to be desired........

We played around in similar vein when Latin classes became too boring:

Ceasar et caecus forte
Brutus et erat
Caesar sic in transit
Brutus sic in at.

Jo

Byron · Post by **Byron** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:44 pm

I'm still struggling with the cat that crept into the crypt, crapped and crept out again.

Byron · Post by **Byron** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:01 am

pas d'elle y on ca nous. Sailor!

Byron · Post by **Byron** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:06 am

Rudyard Kipling wrote that "There's some that think that they will; there's some that think that they might, but the things you learn from the yellow and black will help you a lot with the white." He was a hundred years ahead of his time. He may have been the bloke who said that the reason why the Sun never set on the British Empire was because G-d didn't trust the English in the dark.