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Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth
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08/02/2021 11:09 am
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Why has the word ‘amalgum’ been misspelt in the poem ‘Oh! I wish I’d looked After Me Teeth’?
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08/02/2021 11:10 am
The poet deliberately misspells the word ‘amalgam’ as ‘amalgum’. She wants to emphasise in an amusing way that there were two cavities beneath her teeth which the dentist was to fill with amalgam-a mixture of mercury and another metal used for such purposes.