Post by leoroberts on Apr 9, 2014 13:59:01 GMT
I love words, I like playing around with them and seeing what they can do and there have been murmurings amongst (or 'among' - take your choice) the COGs about how the English language is being decimated by lazy use and imported Americanisms (a word which might, in itself, be an Americanism!)
Which got me to thinking... how difficult is the English language? Forget about words which have silent letters in them, or the 'I before E except after C' rule which has more exceptions than actuals... what about words that are spelt (or 'spelled' - take your choice) the same but pronounced differently?
So I set myself a challenge to write a song which looks as though it should rhyme - but doesn't. I tried purtting it to music - but it just doesn't work, so maybe it's a poem rather than a song.
Please feel free to add your own (non)rhyming couplets in there
Cameron and his cabinet, his cheating entourage
Slashing all the benefits more hard work to encourage
Forcing us to food banks, for staple things like bread
But Michael Gove, he doesn’t care as long as we can read.
And Nigel Farage: he detests Bulgarians and Polish
Mark Harper, though, employed one – all his silverware to polish
The coalition tells us things might get a little rough
But we’re all in this together and in time we’ll make it through
Loopholes in taxation they have not been quick to close
Perhaps because they benefit, those cards they’re keeping close
And while they are in power, they will take the chance to lead
Though their policies weigh heavy on us, like a ton of lead
Their utterings come down on us like crap from a great height
And Britain’s slowly sinking under all that Tory weight.
And come the next election, they will reap what they have sown
When the voters get together and we bring the Tories down.
Which got me to thinking... how difficult is the English language? Forget about words which have silent letters in them, or the 'I before E except after C' rule which has more exceptions than actuals... what about words that are spelt (or 'spelled' - take your choice) the same but pronounced differently?
So I set myself a challenge to write a song which looks as though it should rhyme - but doesn't. I tried purtting it to music - but it just doesn't work, so maybe it's a poem rather than a song.
Please feel free to add your own (non)rhyming couplets in there
Cameron and his cabinet, his cheating entourage
Slashing all the benefits more hard work to encourage
Forcing us to food banks, for staple things like bread
But Michael Gove, he doesn’t care as long as we can read.
And Nigel Farage: he detests Bulgarians and Polish
Mark Harper, though, employed one – all his silverware to polish
The coalition tells us things might get a little rough
But we’re all in this together and in time we’ll make it through
Loopholes in taxation they have not been quick to close
Perhaps because they benefit, those cards they’re keeping close
And while they are in power, they will take the chance to lead
Though their policies weigh heavy on us, like a ton of lead
Their utterings come down on us like crap from a great height
And Britain’s slowly sinking under all that Tory weight.
And come the next election, they will reap what they have sown
When the voters get together and we bring the Tories down.