A nursery rhyme

[Jonathan Lighter]

Exactly.  And I used to say /a/ reg /a/ n  {Oregon) too till I was ridiculed out of it.

Massachusetts-born novelist John Dos Passos has a character in his WWI novel "Three Soldiers" (1921) talking about the "Oregon Forest,"  i.e. the Argonne.

JL
Ed Keer <edkeer at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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But don't you also say h[a]rrid for horrid? I do. No
way to make this rhyme work for me :(

--- Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> I grew up in NYC saying "forrid" and I still say
> "forrid".
>
> You don't have to be British.
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> Wilson Gray wrote:
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> 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? ...?
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> -Wilson Gray
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