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A Brief Thought on Richard the Thirds

A Brief Thought on Richard the Thirds

Jayne has sparked a minor linguistic debate in the Newsfeed today with her post on the past tense of “forego.” This brought to mind my own little piece on language (although from a very different angle) that I wrote a while back. I dug around in the archives, found it and threw it into my portfolio. It’s a silly little thing but it might give you a smile. And, in the last sentence, there’s a bonus joke for the Brits among us.

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I suppose I should explain about the title of this post. It’s actually a bit of Cockney rhyming This little video by Ronnie Barker explains it best, although, for my purposes, the word is "words" :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RwyPDPlFA8

You’ll probably miss some of the references (I know I did) but the important ones get through. Enjoy!


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