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I love the letter S, so sensual and sleek
Curvaceous, slim and sexy, it curls across the page
And starts so many fine words, like stirrup, stream and streak.
O S! I love you so - with me you're all the rage
You sum up all that's best in life - you stand for all things fine,
Like sun and sand and sea and sex and other simple pleasures
You summon up a simple smile on this visage that is mine
Without you, life's less sibilant - with you, it's full of treasures!
My lame-arse ode to a damn sexy letter.
Hemiola
Two 3:4 measures containing 3 distinct half notes, so that the middle note is tied across the measure line.
© 1995-2000 Eric W. Weisstein
Strunk and White sez to pluralize an s word:
1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's
mg, I think you're contradicting yourself.
Jazzie, you is right. I wrote the intro and then quoted S&W so the error is alllll mine.
I luuuurrrve embracing my own mitsakes. That's the modest in me.
For discussions of matters apostrophical, see:
http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=441020&secid=.- (The Oxford Companion to the English Language)
and
http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=591370&secid=.- (The New Fowler's Modern English Usage)
Bingley
Bingley
Thanks for those link's, Bingley. Specially liked the Oxford Companion one. It was clear and concise and gave me an idea of the relative acceptance of various practise's without being preachy.
I'd never write, "I'm all at six's and seven's."
Fair moon, to thee I sing,
Bright regent of the heavens,
Say, why is everything
Either at sixes or at sevens?
-- W. S. Gibert (with Sullivan), Pinafore
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