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echo: barktopus
to: David N. Barnett
from: Steve Ewing
date: 2003-12-15 21:34:42
subject: Re: Wanna bet no one even gets their wrist slapped?

From: Steve Ewing 

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:09:28 -0600, David N. Barnett  wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:59:20 +0100, Phil Payne
>  wrote in message
> :
>
> | FWIW - "Derby", whether referring to the town, its shire, the horse
> race or
> | the suburb of Liverpool (West Derby) is _ALWAYS_ pronounced "Darby".
>
> How do you pronounce "Farthingstonehaugh?"

There was a young curate of Salisbury Whose manners were
Halisbury-Scalisbury He wandered round Hampshire
Without any pampshire
Till the Vicar compelled him to Warisbury

Note - Salisbury is known to locals as Sarum, Hampshire as Hants.

(http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry))

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Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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