Four And Twenty Black Birds

Four and Twenty Black Birds

If there are twenty four blackbirds in a pie, are the black birds blackbirds? Or are they ravens? Or starlings? Grackles? Crows? Coots? Cormorants?

Furthermore, would that be a flock, a mob, a murder, a cover, a constable, a conspiracy, a dissimulation, a murmuration, or an unkindness of black birds in the pie?

If it's a murder, I fear for the king. They ate the maid's nose, after all.

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11 years ago

A Wordplay Poem

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you,

On hiccough, thorough, lough, and through?

Well done! And now you wish perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird.

And dead - it's said like bed, not bead -

For goodness sake, don't call it 'deed'.

Watch out for meat and great and threat

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt):

A moth is not a moth in mother,

Nor both in bother, broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there

Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and lose -

Just look them up - and goose and choose,

And cork and work and card and ward,

And font and front, and word and sword,

And do and go, and thwart and cart -

Come! Come! I've hardly made a start!

                                 ~from the Manchester Guardian, 1954

  Proof that English is as fickle as they say it is.

And for anyone unfamiliar with old-fashioned British phonetics, hiccough is pronounced like hiccup and lough is "lak." Thank you Merriam Webster.


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11 years ago

New favourite joke:

A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers, and says ”Five beers, please.”


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90% of yiddish folk music from WWII: i can and will kill hitler with my own two fists

11 years ago
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11 years ago

Levi: Eren you piece of shit can't you do anything right, God I hate kids like you

Eren: Well I..........'heichou' ass too

Levi:

Eren:

Levi:

Eren: [muffled sounds of laughter]

Levi: Get the fuck out of my office


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5 years ago

here’s to lesbians

here’s to gays

here’s to bisexual people

here’s to pansexual people

here’s to trans people

here’s to non binary people

here’s to asexual people

here’s to lgbt+ people that are in the closet

here’s to lgbt+ people that are afraid to come out to their homophobic family and friends

here’s to lgbt+ people that are out of the closet

here’s to lgbt+ people that are still not sure what is their sexuality or what is their gender

there’s nothing wrong about you! you are all loved! you are all important! you are all beautiful! you all matter!

🏳️‍🌈HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!🏳️‍🌈


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6 years ago

three internet trends i will (regrettably) probably never grow out of:

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fickled ghoti [pʰɪkəld fɪʃ] n : A blog made up primarily of linguistic play.

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