While walking I chanced upon receiver, and could not help saying, “You know, you look a lot like deceiver—but I bet you get that all the time!” “Indeed I do,” receiver said. “In fact, it seems I’m always getting things.”
Not much later I saw deceiver and said, “You know, you look a lot like receiver—but I bet you get that all the time!” “Actually,” he said, “I never get that.” But I know he does.
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Below Dunster too supports the memory of the Gunpowder Plot. Some have even wondered if Oliver Cromwell once played a part Below Dunster, but all musing to that end is futile, and such flailing attempts at fusing past heroes with the past of Dunster are to be shunned in toto, and the perpetrators banished.
One of your comment’s many merits is its foregrounding of a particular difference between the Queen’s English and that of the trans-pond rebels, the former being quite content without “-ten” at the tail of its past participles for “get” and “forget.” B-Dunster guesses “got” and “forgot” have thrived (or thriven, while we’re on past participles) for so long because of their superior functionality in iambic pentameter (or trimeter, as in lines three and six above)—preserving masculine (in the scanner’s sense) endings to the lines.
Watch, watch
The fifth of Scotch
The bottle, dispenser and glarse
Oh, who can sit
In a lit firepit
And not ignite his arse?
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