"Strew, strewed, strewn"

[Sean Fitzpatrick]

<<Does "strew, strewed, strewn" rhyme with "sew, sewed, sewn," i.e., "stro, strode, strone," outside of black East Texas?>>

It usta did.

    Now hath Flora robbed her bow'rs
    To befriend this place with flow'rs.
    Strow about, strow about--skies rained never kindlier show'rs. (Thomas Campion--c. 1607)

OED says "strow" is arch. and dial.  Round the May Pole here in Upper Darbyshire, East Pennsylvania*, c. 2004, we'uns pronounce it strew-strewed-strewn, as in boo-booed-boon.

*I always thought East anything (except E. Germany) so cool. As a Washington, D.C., native, I used to go sailing on the "Eastern Shore", but I missed being "born and raised in East Virginia" by just a couple dozen miles.  Maybe that's why I married a woman who knew how to make Jim Malone's genuine, original, one-and-only, down-home, red-hot, East Texas Bull's Death chili.

Seán Fitzpatrick
Live fast, die young . . . God, what else did I forget?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Wilson Gray 
Sent: Saturday, 02 October, 2004 16:33
Subject: "Strew, strewed, strewn"


Does "strew, strewed, strewn" rhyme with "sew, sewed, sewn," i.e "stro,
strode, strone," outside of black East Texas?

-Wilson Gray