"Strew, strewed, strewn"

[Beverly Flanigan]

Nice!  This reminds me of "shine, shone, shone," where "shone" is
pronounced by me as [Son] but by many others as [SOn], or maybe [San]?  The
open oh is used in Britain too, right?  Any early poetic evidence of a
rhyme, say, with "lawn," Sean?  (That's a rhyme for me, btw.)

At 09:36 PM 10/3/2004, you wrote:
><<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?
>http://www.logomachon.blogspot.com/
>----- 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