A nursery rhyme

Tue Jul 20 20:12:39 UTC 2004

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Barbara Need wrote:

>>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).

<Should be?> No - IS. I have always pronounced forehead to rhyme
w/horrid. (se TX, AR, MO, LA, London, TX, TN)

Bethany