Re: CHAT: IPA Question

H. S. Teoh scripsit:

> OK, so heav'n is common when you're trying to squeeze more words into the
> meter.
But not always.  In the hymn "Joy to the world" (commonly sung as a
Christmas carol), the last line is "And heaven, and heaven, and nature
sing."  There are 11 notes for these 10 syllables, and you'd expect
something like "And heav-en, and hea-e-ven, and na-ture sing".  But what
you get, canonically, is "And hea-evn, and hea-e-evn, and na-ture sing".

So the monosyllable gets directly stretched to a disyllable or even a
trisyllable, rather than being restored to its native disyllabic form.

You can hear [glor\jos] or [glor\jVs] in another Christmas carol, "We three
kings", in the fifth verse:  "Glorious now behold him arise."

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