N'Heures Souris Rames

N'heures souris rames : the Coucy Castle manuscript

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Author	Ormonde de Kay
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. 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:

Georgie Porgie, Pudding and Pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play; Georgie Porgie ran away.

Georgie Port-régie, peu digne en paille, Qui se dégeule sans mais. Dame craille. Où haine de bouées ce qu'aime a tout plié: Georgie Port-régie règne. Ohé.

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.

See also

• Anguish Languish (1956)
• Mots d'Heures (1967)
• Homophonic translation
• Mondegreen
• Phono-semantic matching