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

[Wilson Gray]

WRT the fact that there still exist a few of us living fossils for
whom "forehead" and "horrid" fully rhyme, let me get Suvn/Sudn own yo
ass 'n' say, "A-man, Budda!"

-Wilson

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:10 PM,  <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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>  Oh, my, lets not have people start yelling again about a/o merger. I have=20
>  /forId/ and /horId/, where /o/ varies between [o] (as in BOUGHT) and [ow] (a=
>  s in=20
>  BOAT) in both cases. No doubt the truespel guy will count me among the saint=
>  s=20
>  for rounding my lips in both cases (and prononcing the /h/). Or maybe not,=20
>  since I am a free-variation kind of guy with respect to how tense the=20
>  lip-rounding is, and how high my tongue will be in any given production.
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>  In a message dated 4/4/08 2:02:08 PM, wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM writes:
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>  > Sorry, Ron. It's gotta be=A0 /'farId/=A0 to rhyme with "horrid."
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>  > =A0 Someone once averred to me that "fore-head" amd "horrid" don't rhyme a=
>  t=20
>  > all.=A0 Well, duhhhh!=A0 Not for that kind of individual!
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