Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.

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some Cook, Himes, or Concepcion scripsit:

> 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?
No, that's right.  The last syllable is the "ultima".

> > 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/?
I think /i/ was an error for /I/; I say /aRIndZ/.

Rhyming poem with "month" in it:

"The answer, then", said Doctor Brown,

Who's worked on it a month,
               n
"Isn't merely x ,
      n+1
It's x   ."

                                      n
(This trick depends on the fact that x  in English is pronounced
"x to the enth".)

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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