Custard the Dragon audio file.
The Tale of Custard the Dragon is a fun children's poem requested by humble servant a little while back. You can find the poem's text here.
The Tale of Custard the Dragon is a fun children's poem requested by humble servant a little while back. You can find the poem's text here.
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The upper registers, eh? Just wait until you hear me do the aspirated affirmative (it's an Island thing which consists of saying 'yep,' 'yup,' 'yip,' or even 'yee-uhh' with an indrawn breath.
I can and will do Custard and the Wicked Knight. Perhaps tonight. I still have the recording equipment for a few more days.
I don't know that you'll need to correct typos. Perhaps this link, or this link has a better proofed copy?
Elizabeth Bishop's "The Moose," Humble Servant--a poem which posits that the very affirmative of which you speak is not merely a PEI thing. Peter Sanger, in an essay on Bishop, maintains not only that it's a Nova Scotia thing, but that it's a dying Nova Scotia thing, spoken only by old folks. Which is a load of crap on both counts, as I'm neither a Nova Scotian nor old and I speak it all the time. Anyway, it's a great poem, and would be grand to hear it.
The Moose! Love to do it. I can get to it tonight after work, or tomorrow.
A lot of things people say about poetry -- and language -- is a load of crap. I pin the sound to Islanders because they're the only ones I've heard make it.
But many people also maintain that only Islanders say 'slippy' for 'slippery,' although it's used in both Australia and Ireland.
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