forehead: the little girl with a little curl right in the middle of hers

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sorry, Ron. It's gotta be  /'farId/  to rhyme with "horrid."

  Someone once averred to me that "fore-head" amd "horrid" don't rhyme at all.  Well, duhhhh!  Not for that kind of individual!

  JL

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It of course has to be [forId] to rhyme with "horrid."

In a message dated 4/4/08 12:20:32 PM, cdoyle at UGA.EDU writes:


> Case in point . . . .
>
> Just a few moments ago in class, mentioning some prominent imagery patterns
> in a Jacobean play, I pronounced the word "forehead" in my customary way,
> [farId] (the second vowel may be a barred-"i"). Half the students professed not
> to know what word I was uttering; the other half delicately referred to my
> pronunciation as "something out of _Deliverance_"). And this is in Georgia!
>
> --Charlie
>




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