To his wife said an old man from Sydenham,
"My trousers! Pray, where have you hydenham?"
I know that they're torn,
Thus shouldn't be worn,
But I foolishly left twenty quydenham."
A chambermaid working in Drogheda
Had a mistress who often annogheda.
Whereupon she would swear
In a language so rare,
That thereafter nobody emplogheda.
And I suspect no-one on t'other side of the Atlantic will get this one:
There once was an old man from Salisbury
Whose morals were Halisbury-Scalisbury.
He wandered round Hampshire
Without any pampshire,
'Til the vicar compelled him to Walisbury.
(The old pronunciation of Salisbury was Sarum, and the abbreviation for Hampshire is Hants.)
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