"world" syllables

From: "Nik Taylor" <fortytwo@...>
> 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 ...
There's that hymn that's stuck in my head, the first line goes:

    thi-is i-is my fa-ther's world

Of course you can't always trust the meter of hymns, especially since they all
seem to monosyllabify "heaven", which is something I don't think I ever do.

    *Muke!

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