A dictionary in limericks?

Yep. It’s the OEDILF – The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form – and it already contains more than 30,000 entries defining words and phrases via limerick. To whit:

You like bacon, but don’t care for fat?
We Canucks have an answer for that:
Try some back bacon, eh?
(Other names are passé,
So Canadian bacon falls flat.)

It’s great fun. (Via Normblog.)

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