Un-tounge twisters!
Mr. Shashi Tharoor, an Indian parliamentarian famous for his overwhelming vocabulary and mastery of the English language, may have (as there is no way I can confirm) posted the following tribute to the letter "T". It is a clever ballad of the "Tongue" and I got it while it was doing its rounds in WhatsApp groups. So here it is: A tribute to the letter "T" The tongue’s terrible tendency to tell tall tales totally tarnishes traditional transcommunication theories. The tempestuous tirades traceable to the tongue testify to the traumatic tactics of this tiny tab of tissue. Thousands that take the time to think, try to tame the tumultuous torrent of the too talkative tongue. Temporarily, the tide turns. Towering tempers turn to tenderness. Then, tragically, the trend tapers. The tongue trips, teeters, then takes a tumble; the temptation to trifling twaddle triumphs. Take time to tabulate this timeless truth: to train the tong...