Gershon Wolf Poet Rhyme

Lifts and Lorries

We cowboys on this side of the pond
  Get out of bed with boots and spurs on
To ride our bucking bronco golden stallions
  As you mount your nags on the weak side of the ocean

Yes, we snicker as you call elevators 'lifts'
  And your truckers call a semi a 'lorry'
But daring to call a cop or a smokey a 'bobby' ~
  Odds bodkins, bloke! Please say that you're sorry!

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Geoffrey Brewer January 29, 2021 at 11:37 AM Touché! My Transatlantic friend. I have also addressed this issue in my poem: ‘Inter-nation pronunciation’. By the way, the term: ‘lorry’ would translate as: ‘truck’, while a ‘semi’: we call an ‘artic’ (short for articulated lorry). Capisch? Vive la difference! Gershon Wolf January 29, 2021 at 1:37 PM Wow. An 'articulated lorry.' Whoa! No wonder they call it the 'King's English.' (Truth be told, Americans murder the language. Had we not won the war in 1783, 'Americanese' would 'no doubt' be banned everywhere.) Thanks for the education. ~ From Afar, gw

Rico Leffanta January 28, 2021 at 10:57 AM The trunk on a car is a "boot" and the hood is a "bonnet", so with their huge phallic hats, a "bobby" is a sonnet? Gershon Wolf January 28, 2021 at 5:42 PM Ha, ha, ha. Thank, Rico. Funniest comment of the year for me so far. Keep those jokes coming, man! :) gw