Sidetracked By Language Poem by Douglas Scotney
Sidetracked By Language
Rating: ★5.0
If a nook was a neuk,
a poet would change
a look to a leuk.
With a hang-dog look,
an English poet says 'clowes':
for 'clothes' rhymes only
with 'loathes' and betroths'.
A poet in Scottish
can keep a straight face:
for 'clothes' is 'claise' and 'claes'.
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: clothes,language
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5/2/2024 10:16:30 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Nice poem about interesting regional twists in language. Thanks for sharing it, Douglas.