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fleurdelis28 said on Facebook, "Today's tongue-twister: 'Proper platypus plural.'"

I said, "'All I want is a proper plural platypus . . .'"

She said, "I think this may need to be a song."

That was on Wednesday.

I walked home tonight from Lexington Center.

By the time I was turning up my street, I had nearly six lines out of ten and all the end-rhymes for the following:

All I want is a proper plural platypus
Keep your platypuses and your platypi
Let the monotreme decrying
Pseudo-Latin multiply in
Graeco-scientific equanimity

All I want is a proper plural platypus
It's that Hellenistic etymology
Disregard hypercorrection
Give a shout-out to inflection
Platypodes are the only things for me!

I need a geekier icon even than Hakkai. I'd have worked in "Ornithorhynchus anatinus," but I couldn't make it scan.

Comments

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

No problem! I used to go watch Make-Believe long after I got bored with the rest of the show, and I vaguely remember the Platypodes' mound. (Hah! A chance to use it already.)