Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.

Ed Heil <edheil@...> wrote:
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> I always understood rhymes to begin on the last stressed syllable.
    This is how I've always understood it also.  This is why there is no
rhyme with "silver".  A rhyme on the penult is a feminine rhyme and a =
rhyme
on the final syllable (whose technical name I can't recall) is a =
masculine
rhyme.  Or do I have that backwards?

> 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.
    You pronounce "orange" with two syllables?  And the second contains =
/i/?
Since I joined this list I've been constantly amazed at the variety of
English dialects.  I pronounce "orange" /ornZ/.

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