It’s “National Dictionary Day!” (Limerick)
It’s “National Dictionary Day,” which gives me a good excuse to post a limerick about another new-to-me term: “Dawn Chorus.”
(For the record, all the names have been changed to protect the guilty.)
“Let’s go back to that lovely ‘Fowl Inn,’”
Said my spouse, quite forgetting its din.
’Twas no use telling Boris
(A bull-headed Taurus)
That its dawn chorus drove us to gin.
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Happy birthday to American lexicographer Noah Webster, of dictionary compilation fame. He was born October 16, 1758.
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I didn’t know I was born on National Dictionary Day!
It’s my birthday today too!
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
So we’ll celebrate O. E. D.
Which created abig diction’ry
To get it to size
We initialise
So that I can at least owe you pea!