O English how I love you
Gritty grubby grungy garrulous and gross
Language of the conquered conquering
Of the conquerors conquered
With your indefatigable bioluminescent polysyllables
Your pellucid expositions
Your labyrinths of bewildering chaos
Your homely provinces
Your grand gestures of imperial hubris
Coffee bagels chocolate barbecue sugar tea and taters
Hamburgers hot dogs popcorn ice cream and soda
Swich licour of which vertu engendred is the flour
Sew hem seam thread pin spool weave yarn knit purl loom warp and woof
Manuscript print radio television and internet
Typographical turned nuclear error
Ecclesiastical liturgies
Republican virtues
Proletarian comradery
Piratical swashbuckling
Bohemian rhapsodizing
Glorious sunsets
Steaming road apples
Melancholy twilights
Neonatal ululations
The willy-nilly shilly-shallying of well-to-do ne’er-do-wells
And their flabbergasted fathers-in-law the attorneys-at-law
Newly-reaped sheaves borne on the bier with white and bristly beard
Duck and buck and chuck and scuk and cluck and fuck and luck
The jargon of trades
The argot of the underworld
The heptalk of hipsters
The evanescent slang of gum-popping teenagers
Pmisti effrent
The schwannoma situated in the jugular foramen
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards
Oh could I lose all father now
Let slip the dogs of war ruh-roh
Baby got back
Papa’s got a brand new bag
I got stones in my passway
Obsessive compulsion
Manic depression
Up and down
In and out
To and fro
Back and forth
Left and right
Even and odd
Death and taxes
Rise and fall
Salt and pepper
Duck and cover
Scattered and smothered
Pass and stow
Friends and neighbors
Knives and forks
Tables and chairs
Bacon and eggs
Liver and onions
Cornbread when I’m hungry [and] corn whiskey when I’m dry
Beans and franks
Biscuits and gravy
Lock and load
Cut and paste
See and sing
Bottles and cans
Bricks and mortar
Pen and ink
Lift and separate
Jacket and trousers
Bra and panties
Vest and pants
Coat and hat
Shoes and socks
Shampoo and conditioner
Shave and a haircut
Stars and stripes
Sun and moon
Song and dance
DJ and MC
Sex and drugs
Sex and violence
Sex and the single girl
Labor and management
Labor and delivery
Labor and leisure
quivering and Chill
Oil and gas
Gas and oil
Supply and demand
Hammer and nail
Hammer and tong
Tooth and claw
Command and control
Predator and prey
Please and thank you
Question and answer
Call and response
Hear and obey
Hug and kiss
Bed and breakfast
Room and board
Pots and pans
Time and tide
Clean and jerk
Ketchup and mustard
Milk and honey
Tea and sympathy
Ducks and drakes
Hens and chicks
Needles and pins
Sixes and sevens
Roads and bridges
Guns and ammo
Cars and trucks
Records and tapes
Adam and Eve
Cain and Abel
Abraham and Isaac
Jacob and Esau
Joseph and his brothers
Batman and Robin
Laurel and Hardy
Romeo and Juliet
Holmes and Watson
Siegfried and Roy
Tom and Jerry
Punch and Judy
Tarzan and Jane
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Mom and Pop
Cat and mouse
Cats and dogs
Cat o’ nine tails
Will o’ the wisp
Peg o’ my heart
Victims victorious
Basterds inglourious
Nobody rule over us
God save the thing