N'Heures Souris Rames

N'heures souris rames : the Coucy Castle manuscript

Author	Ormonde de Kay
Subject	homophonic translation, English to French
Genre	Humor
Publisher	C. N. Potter
Publication place	United States
Published in English	1980
Media type	book
ISBN	0-517-54081-9
OCLC	6378996

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: Gousses, Rames: The d'Antin Manuscript (1967)
• Homophonic translation
• Mondegreen
• Phono-semantic matching