Like croissant, like quiche, focaccia and ciabatta

[Mark A. Mandel]

   Chris F Waigl <chris at LASCRIBE.NET> quoted :
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Bratwurst is pronounced with a short A (rhymes with "lot").

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O tempora, o mores! Whatever happened to "short A" as [ae], the vowel of The
Cat in the Hat?

>>>>>Digression:>>>>>

LEONINE, adj.  Unlike a menagerie lion.  Leonine verses are those in which a
word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this
famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:

  The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades.
  Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores:  "O tempora! O mores!"

  It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach
pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues.  Leonine verses are so called
in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in
believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be
run into a single line.

(Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_. The Project Gutenberg Etext of
The Devil's Dictionary: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/972)

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-- Mark A. Mandel
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