Quash v. Squash (Limerick)
As a retired lawyer, I move to quash the idea that “quash” is endangered:
Many fear that the verb known as “quash”
Has of late been supplanted by “squash.”
But attorneys still use it.
(Some even abuse it.)
In courtrooms “quash” still has panache.
(I wrote this in response to a discussion in the “A Way With Words” Facebook group about whether “squash” had largely replaced the word “quash.”)
Tags: Language Humor, Language Limerick, Law Limerick, Lawyer Humor, Legal & Lawyer Humor
Commotion Denied
Have no fear for the future of “quash”
being felled by the fervor for “squash”
Such supplanting will fail
where the esquires prevail
who are out of their gourds over posh.
Portly Bard