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Marylebone Thoughts
Marylebone Thoughts

“Jolie” being French for pretty,
one wonders how it came to be “merry”
in the rollicking tongue of the English
that takes whatever it wants
from languages encountered,
and pronounces however it suits
the words so recently borrowed.
All in all, a jolly good show.


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For Express It In Eight, October 20 2020
Prompt: Jolly.
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