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Unread 10-15-2015, 03:36 PM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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Fun, Jayne! I'll let a more regular comper have a copy, though.


Here's my last-minute effort for this comp:


Salvator mundi, Satnav, save us
from our errant ways.
The spellings that our forebears gave us
trap us in a maze.

Pronounce our towns the best you can,
till Woolfardisworthy and Barnoldswick
reform their spellings, faster than
two vampires fleeing garlic.

I humbly pray you'll do the same
until unholy Godmanchester
takes its vainly-lettered name
and chucks it in the dumpster.

Why should Great and Little Barugh
not sound like plain old Barugh?
Just like you, I've had enarf.
This nonsense needs to park.

(The phonetic spellings of the aforementioned locales are Woolsery, Barlick, Gumster, Great Barf, Little Barf, and Bark.)
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