15. Zebra - A Halfway Song
(after Dunc on Zeus)
Zebra as in zed
or zebra as in zee --
it all seems to depend
on tongues across the sea
Zebra as in zee
or zebra as in zed?
Stripey as a bee
from tail to horsey head
or stripey as a bed?
To Bed or not to Bee --
a zebra with a zed
or zebra with a zee?
Stripey it may be
yet nothing's black and white
A zebra zed goes zee
by transatlantic flight
Zebra, what's its name?
Zebra, which is right?
On paper, it's the same:
It's Z in black and white
And thus I think it best
we leave its name unsaid --
let both sides, east and west
read silently instead:
ZEBRA
(that didn't hurt, did it?)
Sorella
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We Can Work It Out - Beatles
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You're on a zebra kick! This is a very catchy musing on English pronuncation. I like the silent ending, and also that fact that the two kinds of "zebra" have an invisible difference in pronunciation, owing to that first vowel.
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FB aka Rachael, So nice of you to call here at your very own blog, made for all of the Titanic survivors --
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