N'Heures Souris Rames
N'Heures Souris Rames (Nursery Rhymes) is a book of homophonic translations from English to French, published in 1980 by Ormonde de Kay.[1] 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:
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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
References
- ^ de Kay, Ormonde (1980). N'Heures Souris Rames [Nursery Rhymes]. C. N. Potter. ISBN 9780517540817. OCLC 6378996.