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limerick

[lim-er-ik] / ˈlɪm ər ɪk /






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Email your limerick and name to [email protected] by noon Monday, and if we get enough fun ones, we’ll publish a selection to carry us into spring.

From Seattle Times Mar. 15, 2024

Kraft-Walker also ran limerick competitions to advertise Vegemite.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2023

If you’re bored of reading this newsletter, you could ask ChatGPT or Bing to summarize the rest of it for you, or to rewrite it as a jaunty limerick.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2023

Week 1502 was our annual Limerixicon, a salute to the never-ending limerick dictionary project at OEDILF.com.

From Washington Post Sep. 15, 2022

Madeline: "Good limerick" is a contradiction in terms.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Week 1448 was our 18th annual Limerixicon, in which we provide some material for OEDILF.com, the slowly forming dictionary in which the entry for each word is one or more limericks.

From Washington Post Sep. 2, 2021

She liked writing jokes and limericks; then, when she was 14, her mother bought a piano “as a piece of furniture,” Armatrading recalled.

From New York Times Jun. 15, 2021

Some are more limerickish than limerick — and I’ve included a few at the end that aren’t limericks at all — but all should bring a smile to your carapace, er, face.

From Washington Post Jun. 7, 2021

Mr. Bell — in normal times — would accompany his twin 10-year-olds, Samuel and Benjamin, to a special music school near Lincoln Center, connecting with them by playing trivia games and coming up with limericks.

From New York Times May 12, 2020

Olly: haikus are awful, they're just less fun limericks Madeline: You've been downgraded from heathen to heretic.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon




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