Note 187 — Chapter XIX

In Ffon there is a rude kind of assonance, e.g.:—

So nun ajilá: Agbanji ajodisá.

Take a thing and show it: on the counter ’twill be sold.

Which Commander Forbes (vol. ii. p. 100) writes with a wondrous waste of “r’s”:

So wae re jar,

Jorgee

Ah jorgee sar.