Re: looking for a limerick

On 13 Feb, 13:32, Einde O'Callaghan <einde.ocallag...@planet-
interkom.de> wrote:
sprocket schrieb:> ADPUF wrote:

I suppose there are limericks using the sound resemblance in
"for ~ 4" as well.

There's a clear difference, at least in my regional accent, but that
didn't stop a rock group back in the 70s calling themselves the Four
Skins. Puns are absolutely fundamental in English.

In most accents "four" and "fore" are pronounced the same, even if "for"
is pronounced differently - "for" is usually pronounced differently when
it isn't emphasised, even in those accents that pronounce the three
words the same way in isolation.

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan


To John Hall
How 'bout
...The clark said "don't worry,
You won't need to hurry,
There's still a minute or two to two-two"

To JS
Can we have a lady 'of' Looe board a train from Crewe or does she then
become a lady 'from' Looe?

To Tony Mountfield
Does the 'toot' in 'tooters' mean a 'drinking binge'?

To Einde O'Callaghan
Remember that cartoon which showed a guy in a punk outfit playing an
electric guitar looking into a music ***? The question was "Does
he qualify to be a member of a rock band?" The answer, "Nope. He
seems to know how to read music".
And the auditory difference between the 'o' vowel (sort of a 'flat o'
or an 'o' with a front vowel resonance) in 'for' and the 'deep
o' (with a back vowel resonance) in 'four' could only be lost on a
rock band desperately looking for a name for itself, sufficientlyf
shocking to those of us with finer sensibilities, as this difference
is well entrenched in standard international English (RP), British
English, American English, Canadian English and Australian English
.

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