N'Heures Souris Rames
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Author | Ormonde de Kay |
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Country | United States |
Subject | homophonic translation, English to French |
Genre | Humor |
Publisher | C. N. Potter |
Published in English | 1980 |
Media type | book |
ISBN | 0-517-54081-9 |
OCLC | 6378996 |
N'Heures Souris Rames (Nursery Rhymes) is a book of homophonic translations from English to French, published in 1980 by Ormonde de Kay.[1] It contains some forty nursery rhymes, among which are Coucou doux de Ledoux (Cock-A-Doodle-Doo), Signe, garçon. Neuf Sikhs se pansent (Sing a Song of Sixpence) and Hâte, carrosse bonzes (Hot Cross Buns).
Below is de Kay's Georgie Porgie in the original English with the translation into French:
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Each poem is accompanied by a series of footnotes, ostensibly explaining obscure terms and references in the French, which parody the scholarly footnotes of philological texts.
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