
Why Ist It That Way?
Artists who draw cartoons are cartoonists
Musicians who play bassoons, are bassoon-ists
Players of violins are violinists-flute players flutists
Then why aren't drummers drum-ists?
Could the writer of Haiku be a Haiku-ist
Or the rider of a bike a bike-u-ist?
Why are linguists not language-ists
Or photographers photo-ists?
Who conjures these very English isty rules?
Most probably an English lingu-ist fool-ist
by Stan Cooper...6/18/2008 graphic by Don Hunt
Poetry by Stan Cooper

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Written on 2008-06-30 at 22:44




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