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Article: An alphabet reversal verse.
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- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Most Word Ways readers are aware of alphabet poems. Nyr Indictor gave a brief history of them in the August 1995 Word Ways, citing both simple-minded one for children (popular a couple of centuries ago):
A is for apple, ready to eat;B is for boots to put on your feet ...
and droll masterpieces such as one by Willard Espy on page 83 of Words to Rhyme With * Facts on File, 1986):
The Addis, a skink, can make lepers feel fine;The Balisaur, badger, is nosed like a swine;The Chil, or Indian kite, is a hawk;
The Dikkop's a curlew with dikkopy squawk ...
One of the most elaborate poems of this genre is found on page 182 of Rudy ...
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Article: `YOU SAY TOMATO' (BY JOANNE WEIR, BROADWAY BOOKS, ...
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);
July 8, 1998 ;
663 words
...After reading You Say Tomato, the excellent new cookbook by acclaimed author and chef Joanne Weir, you may be just as anxious to thank the same people that she does in the book's acknowledgments -- her mother and her love, Paul. Mom started the ball rolling years ago by teaching young Weir to make
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