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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Only for Emily Dickinson and Wilfred Owen.

  JL

Dennis Preston <preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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Depends on what you mean by "rhyme." Do "basket" and "brisket" rhyme?

dInIs



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>Sorry, Ron. It's gotta be /'farId/ to rhyme with "horrid."
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> Someone once averred to me that "fore-head" amd "horrid" don't
>rhyme at all. Well, duhhhh! Not for that kind of individual!
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>It of course has to be [forId] to rhyme with "horrid."
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>In a message dated 4/4/08 12:20:32 PM, cdoyle at UGA.EDU writes:
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>> Case in point . . . .
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>> 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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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of English
Morrill Hall 15-C
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48864 USA

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