Edification about Word-Pairs: "The BINOMIALS", A Linguistic Lesson

EDIFICATION about SINGABLE WORDPLAY

LESSON COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. This explanation is required for the reader to understand the collections of short poems about binomials that summarize the day-to-day work displayed on our daily blog, and provide material on Word-Pairs that underlies the details in this song cycle of 9 parodies.

BINOMIALS: We are dealing here with a linguistic device discussed by Wikipedia as “Siamese twins” or ‘Irreversible Binomials”. These 

phrases include some of the most colorful expressions in English. There are probably a thousand binomial expressions in the English language. To enhance interest for those who review both humorous poetry and song-lyrics, we have skewed our creations dealing with  binomial pairs here, to emphasize those that have some more appealling aspects. These include alliterative binomials (e.g. kith and kin), rhyming binomials (e.g. shake and bake), reduplicstions (e.g. helter skelter) and legal jargon (e.g. last will and testament).

Some of you may already have favorite expressions (e.g. yours and mine) that are not covered by these categories; we apologize that the potential volume of material does not allow us to be all-inclusive. 

POETIC LYRICS: Our verses about various binomial expressions have, for the most part, been submitted to the online site OEDILF (the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form), where rigorous collaborative editing proceeds in a process that may take as long as a year (approval by 5 writer-contributors is required as a part of the protocol).

These verses are then editorially considered here at this unrelated website by Giorgio Coniglio, registered pseudonym, who recommends illustrative pictorial material and other addenda for prompt release to the audience of "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". On further review, this material, and similar poems not part of the original process, may be collated here for topic-based collections, as you will now find on these pages.  

UKULELE and GUITAR-FRIENDLY SONG-LINKS: As of 2024, our whole series of song-lyrics (9 songs to date) is displayed under the rubric "singable satire" on our main blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense".

The links for each of these blogposts is diaplayed at the bottom of this post.

We have also provided chord-charts and playing suggestions for acompanying musicians to make these outpourings singable.The keys are targeted principally at ukulele-players, but easy transposition is possible if you play guitar, banjo, mandolin, or other stringed instrument. Follow the links that accompany each post to get to "Silly Songs and Satire" !

 can be found in a friendly format for ukulele- and guitar-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE". ul performing suggestions. 

loonie and toonie: rhyming coins

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HOT LINKS to the WORD-PAIR parody lyrics 

(these are the links that take you to "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". Follow further links, once there, to find the chord charts and other suggestions for playing the songs on ukulele (or other stringed instruments). 

Pairs
Alliterative Binomials, part #1
Alliterative Binomials, part #2
Reduplications - Lesson
Reduplications - Lexicon A to K
Reduplications - Lexicon M to Z
Rhyming Binomials, A to M
Rhyming Binomials, M to Z
Legal Doublets

GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS: 

To resume the sequence of daily titillations on our related blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", click HERE. Once you arrive, you can select your time frame of interest from the calendar-based listings at the bottom of the page, and check the daily offerings for any month from the start of 2020 until December 2024. 

As of June 2025, there are 2000 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. Most of their key elements are also presented here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections, such as this one. The "Daily" format also has the advantage of including some song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.