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A priceless bit of information ensuring
me an eternity of grace for doing my
duty as an assembly line translator
looking up the generic appellation
for a person from Burkina Faso
He or she is called a Burkinan which
rhymes with Buchanan, Louisianan
Conan, my favourite barbarian
Tongan - Oh, the joys of non-
sensical information
Lewis Carrol would be overjoyed by
rules ensuring that making limericks
becomes a mechanical function
carried out by dictionaries
Alice in the Red Queen’s palace
would be aghast, I suppose, but
the Mad Hatter and March Hare
would rejoice also…
And I had the temerity to call
him Burkinabe, oi vey…
Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007.
Oxford University Press. Encyclopedia.com.
1 Feb. 2010 http://www.encyclopedia.com/
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