i'm curious: is the word 'chide' in your /the common parlance? in my
dialect area it's marginal.
your wife
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Snider [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 July 2001 5:21 p.m.
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Another sonnet ...
That's exactly what my wife said ...
On Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at 01:13 AM, Wystan Curnow (FOA ENG) wrote:
> Michael, i see you are incorrigible. not another sonnet, you naughty
> boy:
> stop it NOW! before i give you a good chiding. And why does it always
> have
> to be me that puts the clothes away? You poets are all the same, lying
> around in bed, thinking about sex when there's housework to be done, and
> then prentending it's all for the sake of another sonnet.
> wystan
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