“Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee!
We think no Birds so happy as we!
Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill!
We think so then, and we thought so still!”

—  Edward Lear

The Pelican Chorus http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/pelican.html, chorus (1877).

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