Jingle Jangle's author has penned a couple of
limerix1 himself:
The Snaggletooth Killer did the crime
But my cousin Ray Krone did the time.
The cops did the frame
So friends did the same.
Now Ray's sipping tequila and lime.
The author's cousin did the time.
But who did the horrible crime?
If you read 'tween the lines
You'll discover the signs
To solve this mysterious rhyme.
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- The author chooses the plural form limerix (like "one deer"/"many deer") over limerixes [or limerices!—see comment from Brendan, for which thanks]. Plural limerix enjoys the advantage of sounding like plural limericks (while suffering the misfortune of not looking plural).
... (while suffering the misfortune of not looking plural).
ReplyDeleteIndeed. It almost looks like the plural would thus be limerices.
THANK YOU, Brendan! I've noted your excellent suggestion in the footnote. I wish that I had thought of that (especially since I'd thought of plural limerix as somehow "Latinate"; maybe, but only on the way to your perfecting it).
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