sprinkles/jimmies (was: Angel-Hair; Soft Ice Cream; Pizza Bagel; Sirloin Tips)

[Beverly Flanigan]

Trochaic or dactylic?!  I've forgotten!

At 03:11 PM 2/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
>"Baker, John" <JBaker at STRADLEY.COM> writes:
>
> >>>>>
>         Yes, jimmies are everywhere in Boston.  When my wife (who grew up in
>suburban Boston) was in school, she learned as an example of iambic
>pentameter "I'll have ice cream with jimmies on it please."
><<<<<
>
>Clink! Yeah, that would work in oral transmission... but when I *read* your
>post, I automatically prosodized it as
>
>      i'll have ICE cream with JIMmies on it PLEASE
>
>I guess it's because I normally stress "ice cream" on the "ice".
>
>-- Mark


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