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Professor Bernard, who teaches at Springfield College, became intrigued with the lyrics to the Christmas song, The Twelve Days of Christmas , when he first noticed the virtual redundancy of partridge and perdrix , the Latin word for the bird, leading him to surmise that the words in a pear tree could well have been Norman French for `en a perdrix,' or words to that effect.