Alliterative Whims
Mrs. Crawford says she wrote one line in her song, “Kathleen Mavourneen,” for the express purpose of confounding the cockney warblers, who sing it thus—
“The ’orn of the ’unter is ’eard on the ’ill.”
Moore has laid the same trap in the Woodpecker—
“A ’eart that is ’umble might ’ope for it ’ere.”
And the elephant confounds them the other way—
“A helephant heasily heats at his hease,
Hunder humbrageous humbrella trees.”