Can You Continue This Nursery Rhyme (Clue - Franglais)

[Atheist]

Un petit d'un petit s'étonne et vole,
Un petit d'un petit a degré te folle

[Atheist]

I think I saw a full version of this in the Guardian many years ago, but I can't remember the rest.

[Mamyalynne]

Well, he's still in bits ;-)

[jourdain2]

I know this one - but I can't remember all the words either!

I remember that it gave some French teaching students headaches when asked to translate it - until the phonics dawned!

[Mamyalynne]

Un petit d'un petit
S'étonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit
Tout gai de Reguennes.

[Atheist]

Mamy; you are such a clever clogs! X
Jourdain; could you compose a continuation? (and maybe correct or improve my beginning which came from memory) X

[Atheist]

Mamy; Thank you. It took me a bit of thought before I got it!

[Etch]

From my copy of The d'Antin Manuscript:

Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit d'un petit
Tout Gai de Requennes.

:-)

[JimF]

I've seen various versions of that.

Un petit, d'un petit, sa tonne aux Halles
Un petit, d'un petit à degré folle
Aldère qui ne sort cesse un aldère qui ne se mènent
Coude haine pute un petit tout gai de Reguennes

[jourdain2]

Yikes! I can have a go I suppose - currently trying to make a poem about a pike and a bike...... it's a long story, but this 6 yr old along the road met us out the other day and noticed that his bike rhymed with Tyke (our dog's name) - poem duly written for him. Then he knocked at the door to tell me that Tyke rhymes with 'pike' so I managed one about that. Now he's told me that 'pike' and 'bike' rhyme.... I'm nearly there! Kept his interest before school re-opened anyway. :)

[Khandro]

'Un petit d'un petit'

The inevitable outcome of a teenage marriage ?

[Mamyalynne]

Eggs is eggs K.

[Atheist]

Thank you all you AB francophones. Can someone confirm that 'Les Halles' omits the elision because of the intrusion of a silent 'h'? On the metro, Les Halles is pronounced 'lay al' (not 'laze al'), so I suppose that 'aux halles' would be pronounced 'oh al', not 'oze al'

[ichkeria]

Yes it’s “lay al”

[Peter Pedant]

here
Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames - The D'Antin Manuscript Hardback Book The Cheap

available ebay £25 and I am sure amazon

I remember the title as one of my relations - english grad - got incredibly possy about it one christmas. The beginning of a twenty five year winter.....