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On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 11:56:35 +0000, Anton Shepelev wrote:

Hen Hanna:

Where's that at?

See also "Where are you at?", e.g. /Where you at/ by Lloyd Price:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K92b9ElL9r4>

Alice in Wonderland:

"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea tray in the sky".

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LionelEdwards:

Alice in Wonderland:

"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea tray in the sky".

Amos Milburn, pianist and singer (quoted from memory):

Vicious, vicious vodka,
Oh, you dirtry rat:
Got me on this corner --
Now I don't know where I'm at

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On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 14:31:47 +0000, Anton Shepelev wrote:

LionelEdwards:

Alice in Wonderland:

"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea tray in the sky".

Amos Milburn, pianist and singer (quoted from memory):

Vicious, vicious vodka,
Oh, you dirtry rat:
Got me on this corner --
Now I don't know where I'm at

For a better scan you have Byron's finest work:

Bob Southey! You're a poet, poet laureate,
And representative of all the race.
Although 'tis true that you turned out a Tory at
Last, yours has lately been a common case.
And now my epic renegade, what are ye at
With all the lakers, in and out of place?
A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye
Like four and twenty blackbirds in a pye,

Which pye being opened they began to sing'
(This old song and new simile holds good),
'A dainty dish to set before the King'
Or Regent, who admires such kind of food.
And Coleridge too has lately taken wing,
But like a hawk encumbered with his hood,
Explaining metaphysics to the nation.
I wish he would explain his explanation.

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On 2025-02-03 05:56, Anton Shepelev wrote:

Hen Hanna:

Where's that at?

See also "Where are you at?", e.g. /Where you at/ by Lloyd Price:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K92b9ElL9r4>

In Newfoundland, you might hear "Stay where yer to. I'll come where yer at."

Perhaps it's the other way around, though.

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Hen Hanna:

Where's that at?

See also "Where are you at?", e.g. /Where you at/ by Lloyd Price:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K92b9ElL9r4>

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LionelEdwards quoted Byron:

Bob Southey! You're a poet, poet laureate,
And representative of all the race.
Although 'tis true that you turned out a Tory at
Last, yours has lately been a common case.

Some impudent poetic license -- so to break a phrase
for the sake of rhyme and rhythm. Was he parodying
Bob Southey?

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On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 16:40:49 +0000, jerryfriedman wrote:

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:26:04 +0000, Anton Shepelev wrote:

LionelEdwards quoted Byron:

Bob Southey! You're a poet, poet laureate,
And representative of all the race.
Although 'tis true that you turned out a Tory at
Last, yours has lately been a common case.

Some impudent poetic license -- so to break a phrase
for the sake of rhyme and rhythm. Was he parodying
Bob Southey?

I think "impudent" is a good description of a lot of
Byron's rhymes. Calling Southey "Bob" was also
probably impudence.

He could dash off rhymes with insolent skill, helped
by his huge vocabulary. Needing two rhymes for
"Southey" he found "mouthy" easily enough, but what
is another word that rhymes with "Southey"?

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On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:34:44 +0000, LionelEdwards wrote:

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 16:40:49 +0000, jerryfriedman wrote:

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:26:04 +0000, Anton Shepelev wrote:

LionelEdwards quoted Byron:

Bob Southey! You're a poet, poet laureate,
And representative of all the race.
Although 'tis true that you turned out a Tory at
Last, yours has lately been a common case.

Some impudent poetic license -- so to break a phrase
for the sake of rhyme and rhythm. Was he parodying
Bob Southey?

I think "impudent" is a good description of a lot of
Byron's rhymes. Calling Southey "Bob" was also
probably impudence.

He could dash off rhymes with insolent skill, helped
by his huge vocabulary. Needing two rhymes for
"Southey" he found "mouthy" easily enough, but what
is another word that rhymes with "Southey"?

Why not "drouthy"?

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