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"The Motor Bus" is a macaronic poem written in 1914 by Alfred Denis Godley (1856–1925). The mixed English-Latin text makes fun of the difficulties of Latin declensions. It takes off from puns on the English words "motor" and "bus", ascribing them to the third and second declensions respectively in Latin, and declining them. The poem's rhymes assume that the Latin words are read using the traditional English pronunciation, which was taught in British (and American) schools until well into the 20th century.

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rdfs:comment	"The Motor Bus" is a macaronic poem written in 1914 by Alfred Denis Godley (1856–1925). The mixed English-Latin text makes fun of the difficulties of Latin declensions. It takes off from puns on the English words "motor" and "bus", ascribing them to the third and second declensions respectively in Latin, and declining them. The poem's rhymes assume that the Latin words are read using the traditional English pronunciation, which was taught in British (and American) schools until well into the 20th century. (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Motor vehicle Noun Declension United Kingdom University of Cambridge University of Oxford Macaronic Colloquial Cornmarket Street Genitive case Nominative case Public Orator Vocative case English language Motor bus 1914 poems Traditional English pronunciation of Latin Dative case Dog Latin Oxford Grammatical case Primer (textbook) Pun A.D. Godley High Street, Oxford Armand D'Angour English poems Ablative case Accusative case Latin language Macaronic language Latin Latin declension Latin language College Dorothy L. Sayers Articulated bus Bus Buses in fiction Classics Carmen Possum dbr:Herbert_H._Huxley dbr:Mars_Bar_(Huxley)
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has abstract	"The Motor Bus" is a macaronic poem written in 1914 by Alfred Denis Godley (1856–1925). The mixed English-Latin text makes fun of the difficulties of Latin declensions. It takes off from puns on the English words "motor" and "bus", ascribing them to the third and second declensions respectively in Latin, and declining them. At the time of writing Godley, a distinguished Classical scholar, was Public Orator at the University of Oxford. The poem commemorates the introduction of a motorised omnibus service in the city of Oxford. Corn and High are the colloquial names of streets in the centre of the city; several Colleges of the University are located in High Street. The poem has since been cited in the context of the recent introduction of larger vehicles (including "bendy" buses). The poem may owe its continued popularity to the large number of pupils who formerly had to learn Latin as a compulsory subject for University entrance exams (not just for Oxford and Cambridge) in the United Kingdom. Most of them will have used a primer in which Latin nouns were declined; for example, servus, serve, servum, servi, servo, servo (depending upon the order in which Latin's six cases—nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative—were listed). The poem provided interest to what was a very dry subject for most school pupils. The poem's rhymes assume that the Latin words are read using the traditional English pronunciation, which was taught in British (and American) schools until well into the 20th century. (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	English plurals A. D. Godley Effects of the car on societies Carmen Possum Macaronic language Motor Bus Society Motor Bus The Motor Bus (poem)
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