The “What–A–Good–Idea” Pilgrim Fathers
brought no wagon,
brought no wheelwright.
One exasperated lady
invented a working truck,
the “Mary Cart”.
Now, in this time,
‘Lingua Franca’
meant what it said.
Affected fools
morphed their speech to French,
sounding silent a word’s last consonant:
but not the end of Mary’s name
for she was young unmarried;
cracking shins for reputation.
So the words a Crown Inspector heard
on riding the colony’s Mary cart
were “er…this is a Mary car’.”