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To: HKMk23; LibreOuMort
Fol diddle diddle di doh

An ancient Gaelic tradition relatively recently contributed to the English language: song syllables with no meaning at all. (The Irish were the main promoters of this.) In English today they're called "vocables."

You'll find them in Gaelic songs older than the English language -- and so formally established one can instantly identify the song by its vocables.

1,680 posted on 11/23/2010 5:47:21 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Why are TSA exempt from their own searches?)
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To: sionnsar

Right. So then...

“Ring-ding, diddle-iddle-eye-dee-oh, ring-dong, diddly-aye-aay-oh”

Name that tune.


1,682 posted on 11/23/2010 5:53:35 PM PST by HKMk23 (Quit worryin' what other folks think; they don't do it all that much anyway.)
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