Re: CHAT: Being both theologically correct and properly modern

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