Re: Word usage in group versus out of group.

Nik Taylor scripsit:

> Interesting, a kind of rhyming slang there in the jimmygrant -->
> pomegranate?  Was that pronounce "pomegran'te", that is, without the -a-
> pronounce of -ate?
Possibly.  Written evidence, which is what we have to go on, can't
be conclusive in such a matter.  OTOH, approximate rhymes are part of
the English tradition of rhyme, possibly because English has so
many different vowels.

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John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
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