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Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, October 24, 1999, 19:22
Ed Heil wrote:
> I always understood rhymes to begin on the last stressed syllable. > That's the trick with orange. It's not just got to rhyme with "rindZ" > but with the whole word, because the first syllable is stressed and > VC.
I don't think so. IF you say /'orIndZ/ then I'd think of "hinge" as a rhyme, but I use only one vowel, /orndZ/, so they don't rhyme at all. -- "Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." -- Joseph Wood Krutch http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ #: 18656696 AIM screen-name: NikTailor