Re: To all of you English Majors out there...

["wee miss jillian" <waytogojane at hotmail_com>]

as a 15 year old, under the influence of soymilk...i actually pronounced 
collins wrong....without the collins', y'know?  i could claim that 
mispronunciation as poetic license, thus freeing me from any linguistic 
restraints....but we could always change it to "looks like phil collins' 
head".

jillian.
we're tired of the 90's.
but we're tied to the 90's.

>Jillian shared her shining moment of high school brilliance (haha!) with us 
>in her haiku:
>
>>my arse is big red
>>it looks like phil collins' head
>>the traffic goes by
>
>and that brings up a very nonimportant (like all of mine, actually...) 
>question I have.  Isn't "collins'" as meant in that sentence pronounced 
>like "cahl-lynz-ez", making it three syllables, and that haiku line an 
>invalid eight??
>
>hmm.
>
>But seriously,
>Bruce
>

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