A nursery rhyme

Barbara Need nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
Tue Jul 20 14:52:25 UTC 2004


>There was a little girl
>And she had a little curl
>Right in the middle of her forehead.
>When she was good, she was very, very good.
>But when she was bad, she was horehead?/hoarhead?/whorehead? ...?
>
>-Wilson Gray

Except that forehead "should" be (used to be) pronounced something
like forid (and therefore rhymed with horrid).

Barbara Need



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