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RE: [ANN] XML Limerick Competition

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• Subject: RE: [ANN] XML Limerick Competition
• From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:06:12 -0800

> > Although I am not sure about the fringe cases : 
> > e.g. "beema"
> 
> I'll gladly assent to the requirement that all words 
> in the limerick be entries in the OED.

I would consider that rule a violation of artistic license. 

Anyhow, the OED shows too much of a Queen's English bias, IMO. Why not the
American Heritage Dictionary? At least it has words like 'copacetic':

There once was a lim'rick aesthete
Who wanted all poems complete
	With words copacetic 
	No meter pathetic
And humor of form quite discreet.


And no flames about the long lines above not being fully 3 foot anapestic,
either. I can count.

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