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Linguistics 3 My Tonology Hypothesis 1

Igbo Sex Words I have observed Are High-Low Tone steady bearers: To ‘High-Low’ markedly reserved, Save in ears of tone-deaf hearers… All her words for Male Genital Picked by ears not from hospital And Females’ one’s ears digital; To Proof subject in Capital As though her sex words tactical Even word for Scrotal Hernia When pronounced and one’s ears are near: The word in question her ‘ibi,’ In tone a rhyme with farm’s ‘Ubi’; Also, her word for ‘The Hip,’ When it drops from one’s testing lip; The word for “Buttock’ included, Just her word for ‘Breast’ excluded... I dare say “Wonderful language, Since her Sex Words The Sex Act stage, Before Sex human strength quite high Like their First Syllables are high And Ali Baba killed goes low Just as their Seconds are all low.

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