"mores" with silent E

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Aug 3 15:28:34 UTC 2010


At 8/3/2010 10:53 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>I'd like to think that the monosyllabic
>pronunciation may be a reconstruction from "some-mores".

Larry, I think that's spelled "s'mores".  :-)

Joel

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