Worms and two limericks about weasel words grace the December 2024 issue of mini-AIR, our free monthly little e-newsletter of stuff that’s too tiny to fit into the magazine Annals of Improbable Research.
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Here is the winning-limericks passage from this month’s mini-AIR:
Weasel Word Watch Winner
The judges have chosen a winner in last month’s Competition, which asked for a limerick to explain this study:
“Revealing the Ritually Concealed: Custodians, Conservators, and the Concealed Shoe,” Ceri Houlbrook and Rebecca Shawcross, Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, vol. 14, no. 2, 2018.
uhra.herts.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2299/20201/Houlbrook_and_Shawcross_revealing_the_ritually_concealed_Accepted_Manuscript.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=n
Winning limerickicist TRICIA MEGALOPOULOS writes:
What can I say about these…
these words that I utter with ease?
These words (such as “healthy”!)
are making me wealthy.
Some rubes are soooooooo easy to please.
This month’s take from our LIMERICK LAUREATE, MARTIN EIGER:
The words wander easily, breezily,
But do what they’re doing too sleazily.
They flow and fly by
But don’t say, they imply.
I can see what I’m seeing is weaselly.