Stepfather Goose

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Just Take a Gander

U No Hu¹

This little phone had high tone, This little phone had low, This little phone was nasalized, This little phone was not so, And this little phone went scre-e-ech All through the recording. -*-*-*- Noam Chomsky sat on a wall, Noam Chomsky had a great fall,      All the world’s linguists      And all other men Couldn’t use Chomsky’s grammar again -*-*-*- Phonology hot, phonology cold      Phonology not so hot, featureless and bold, Some like it not, some like it old,      Some like it whether or not r’s are flapped or rolled -*-*-*- I think that I shall never see A tree that is poetic,      A little tree      Whose nodes are free Though neither eme or etic.