Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.
| From: | Ed Heil <edheil@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 25, 1999, 0:05 |
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Technically, the [I] can reduce to [@], but otherwise, yes, that's how
I pronounce "Orange." Two syllables.
BTW, let me share this poem from Willard Espy, since you brought up
rhyming "silver":
To find a rhyme for silver
Or any rhymeless rhyme,
Requires only will, ver-
bosity, and time.
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some Cook, Himes, or Concepcion wrote:
> Ed Heil <edheil@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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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