10 March 2008

Vocabulary

A gavial's a reptile that eats fishes for its dinner;
It's like an alligator, but its snout is rather thinner.
A gavel is a special kind of little wooden hammer
Which a Speaker bangs the table with to silence any clamour.
The likeness of the words can be confusing to the layman,
But a gavel's like a mallet, and a gavial, a caiman.

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Doggerel! Yay hoopla! More, more, if it please.

10:47 AM  
Blogger Robin Johnson said...

And to think, a simple typing error might result in millions
Of auctioneers and judges getting ate by crocodilians.

3:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

woot, that was great. I'm gonna go try a rhyme to id crocodiles versus alligators.

10:25 PM  
Blogger thepoetryman said...

Very nice.

10:43 PM  

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