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

[Wilson Gray]

That's an improvement on my "hoar-head," Larry.

-Wilson

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 11:01 AM -0700 4/4/08, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>  >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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>  You could try to convince said individual that "horrid" is actually a
>  corruption of "whore-head".
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>  LH
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>  >RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
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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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