N'Heures Souris Rames
Introduction '''''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
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