forehead: the little girl with a little curl right in the middle of hers

[Alice Faber]

Definitely, /'farId/ to rhyme with /'harId/.


Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Sorry, Ron. It's gotta be  /'farId/  to rhyme with "horrid."
>
>   Someone once averred to me that "fore-head" amd "horrid" don't rhyme at all.  Well, duhhhh!  Not for that kind of individual!
>
>   JL
>
> RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
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> It of course has to be [forId] to rhyme with "horrid."
>
> In a message dated 4/4/08 12:20:32 PM, cdoyle at UGA.EDU writes:
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>
>> Case in point . . . .
>>
>> Just a few moments ago in class, mentioning some prominent imagery patterns
>> in a Jacobean play, I pronounced the word "forehead" in my customary way,
>> [farId] (the second vowel may be a barred-"i"). Half the students professed not
>> to know what word I was uttering; the other half delicately referred to my
>> pronunciation as "something out of _Deliverance_"). And this is in Georgia!
>>
>> --Charlie
>>
>


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