Split Infinitives

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 06/06/2017 14:32:08:

Posted by charadam on 06/06/2017 00:51:06:

Clerihew alert!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Be alert!

Britain needs lerts!

Neil

Neil, just a thought

Your Clerihew's short

There should be some more

Yours has two lines not four

Edited By duncan webster on 06/06/2017 15:08:25

[OldMetallerParticipant @oldmetaller]

I like Clerihews:

 

Wayne Rooney

Could never be a Moonie

As they have to relinquish

All of their chinkies

 

 

I'll get me coat…

John.

Edited By OldMetaller on 06/06/2017 15:12:43

[GeorgineerParticipant @georgineer]

As somebody else very succinctly put it:

E. Clerihew Bentley,

Incident'ly,

Was the man

Who invented Clerihews which rhyme but don't scan.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Posted by Georgineer on 06/06/2017 16:32:15:

As somebody else very succinctly put it:

E. Clerihew Bentley,

Incident'ly,

Was the man

Who invented Clerihews which rhyme but don't scan.

Well the's better than most modern poetry, which neither rhymes nor scans. We used to call that prose in my young day!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by duncan webster on 06/06/2017 16:38:58:

Well the's better than most modern poetry, which neither rhymes nor scans. We used to call that prose in my young day!

My favourite form of poetry is alliterative verse, like Beowulf

Neil

[Tim StevensParticipant @timstevens64731]

Has this thread drifted ever so slightly from its title?

Does it matter?

Or, to bring it back in line, what might we do to fairly easily and without involving too many people realign it ?

Cheers, Tim

The trouble with grammar

At least according to my old english teacher who had rather an unfortunate stammer

Is that most of the guidance expounded as rules

Was invented by p-p-p-p-p-pedantic old fools.

[blowlampParticipant @blowlamp]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 06/06/2017 17:41:20:

Posted by duncan webster on 06/06/2017 16:38:58:

Well the's better than most modern poetry, which neither rhymes nor scans. We used to call that prose in my young day!

My favourite form of poetry is alliterative verse, like Beowulf

Neil

I like a bit of that too, with maybe a dash of sibilance thrown in: This is the stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun (Blackadder), being a personal favourite

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

[Dod MoleParticipant @georgeclarihew]

Posted by duncan webster on 02/06/2017 22:19:39:

As this thread is becoming increasingly silly, GeorgeC might at least have indulged us with a Clerihew

**LINK**

Like a'buddy else, most people think I am a clerihew but I am a ClArihew, no relation to the poetic clerihew so no idea what this thread has got so aerated about and wrongly involving me as an ignorant bystander is surely getting sillier by the minute.

Hopefully this post is riddled with split infinitives and bad grammer, and speling mistaks and usin Doric tae git ma pint ower.

Edited By George Clarihew on 06/06/2017 19:48:09

[GeorgineerParticipant @georgineer]

Posted by Tim Stevens on 06/06/2017 18:26:52:

…what might we do to fairly easily and without involving too many people realign it ?

I think this deserves an award of some sort. Well done, Tim!

Geo.

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