"Strew" rhymes w/"sew" redux

[Jonathan Lighter]

Nobody's ever explained Ed Sullivan's "really big 'shoo,' "  either, though he  didn't really pronounce it exactly like "shoo / shoe."  It was more like / S y o u /.

JL

sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> wrote:
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Don't forget "shew," also inflected like "sew." G.B.Shaw still used this
spelling. Can't at the moment remember with certainty other XX Cent.
writers who did, but probably someone will.
A. Murie


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