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Deviance from what? Only small people have rules.
Very good point- which would explain why Tdol Towers is no more. ;-)
Deviance from what? Only small people have rules.
Like "spring, sprang, sprung" is "bring, brang, brung."
Of course, the proper English is "bring, brought, brought."
Where?
See more here. (But that song was written in 1910; I've never known a oom called a parlour. And when I first met it (almost certainly in the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence) I needed it explained to me. As 'the maid'* was there [in that nursery rhyme] I imagine it was a 'downstairs'* thing).When Father papered the parlour
You couldn't see him for paste
Dabbing it here! dabbing it there!
Paste and paper everywhere
Mother was stuck to the ceiling
The children stuck to the floor
I never knew a blooming family
So 'stuck up' before.
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