Re: CHAT: Being both theologically correct and properly modern

Steg Belsky wrote:
>
> On Sat, 12 May 2001 20:48:06 -0400 Robert Hailman <robert@...>
> writes:
> > Nik Taylor wrote:
> > >
> > > Raymond Brown wrote:
> > > > I remember one old timer in the village Church choir pronounced
> > that last
> > > > word disyllabically thus: /'wVr@ldz/
> > >
> > > That's not normal?  I say it /worl=dz/ or /wor@ldz/ (not sure
> > which is
> > > correct, but disyllabic at any rate), I never realized that that
> > was not
> > > normal ...
>
> > I remember years ago I heard that "world" only had one syllable, and
> > I
> > remember that confused me, because as far as I could tell, it had 2.
> > I don't know how I pronounced it at the time, though. Now it's
> > monosyllabic, for me. /wVrldz/ or some such.
> >
> > --
> > Robert
> -
>
> I say "world" as one syllable.  "Charles", however, is two.  [tSarl=z],
> as is "iron" [ajr=n].
Those are my pronouncations for those two, also.

--
Robert