Drizzle, drazzle, drome....

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Djando

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France
Hello everybody,

There's an expression I don't understand :

" drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome "

Someone could explain it ?
Many thanks
 
    • Hello, Djando.

    Mild-mannered Tooter Turtle lived out his fantasies through the sorcery of Mr. Wizard, the Lizard of the Great Forest.


    Assuming many different identities, Tooter went from being a lumberjack to a taxi driver, from pre-historic times to the moon. He always wound up botching the jobs and getting in trouble. Crying out "Help, Mr. Wizard!", Tooter invoked the powers of Mr. Wizard to get him home. Mr. Wizard complied, with his magical chant: "Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Drome, time for this one to come home!"
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    These words come from a story for children, and represent a wizard's incantation to produce a magical result. The author obviously chose the words for the special sound they produce, and aren't intended to have a specific meaning. It would be the same situation if I took words that have a similar sound, some real words and some not, and said: snaggle, waggle, and taggle.
     
    Oh... thanks Eddie!! All this time I've been searching my dictionaries, and now I come back and you have the answer. Good! :thumbsup:
     
    That's right, Djando... or like fe, fi, fo, fum... from the Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

    Artrella, you probably have something similar in Spanish, ¿verdad?
     
    Djando said:
    Hello everybody,

    There's an expression I don't understand :

    " drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome "

    Someone could explain it ?
    Many thanks
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    Often in contemporary English, we create words that not only sound interesting, but also have the intention of creating a rhyme with a real word (for song, incantations, or other literary needs). In a similar example to the above, there is:

    Twizzle, twazzle, twuzzle, twome
    Time for this one to come home

    -- Mr Wizard (address to Tooter the Turtle, Tooter Turtle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

    The sounds of the first words (that aren't really words) are like magical incantations, and twome specifically created to rhyme with home.
     
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