Talk:Limerick (poetry)

Example
Must think of a better example. The metre is wrong on the current one -- Tarquin


 * Is it better after taking out the vandalism from a couple months ago? --Brion


 * Much. I obviously didn't read that closely... it's pre-breakfast in my time zone :-) -- Tarquin

Quotations
Those two references about the name, currently reference 1 and 2, are, judging by references on the web, from the fascicle containing the L, 1898, from the Oxford Dictionary 1928 edition. What is it that has to be referenced about Sumer is icumen in, currently the third reference, which has its own page? Mysha

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 * Limerick on the walls of Limerick.jpg

Why is there a " { " at the top of the talk page?
I just noticed this and I was like hmmmmmm? Frittle (talk) 14:09, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I wondered where I'd dropped that. Fixed now. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 19:36, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Frittle (talk) 13:38, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Algebra
The successive algebraic simplifications of the mathematical limerick is rather unencyclopedic, isn't it? The limerick stands well on it's own, and explicitly performing the calculations seems like WP:OR. —St.Nerol (talk, contribs) 13:14, 12 January 2024 (UTC)