"war" [wor]

[Matthew Gordon]

Do 'war' and 'for' rhyme for you?


On 8/14/08 10:34 AM, "Charles Doyle" <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:

> My problem was that "war" and "four" don't rhyme! (It's an "open-o" thing.)
>
> --Charlie
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> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:46:26 -0400
>> From: Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject: Re: "war" [wor]
>>
>> I think Charles's problem lay in the fact that this was written rather than
>> spoken.
>>
>> m a m
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>>> At 8/14/2008 09:40 AM, Charles Doyle wrote:
>
>>>> Last night the folks at MSNBC were discussing McCain's bellicosity
>>>> regarding the Russia-Georgia conflict, and the caption on the screen read
>>>> "War More Years."  I was baffled for a good many seconds, trying to
>>>> ascertain wherein consisted the wit of the expression. Finally I realized
>>>> that "war" is supposed to rhyme with (thence substitute for) "four."  Was
>>>> that the point?
>
>>>
>>> I pronounce "war" to rhyme with "four"  (NYC).  Are there regional
>>> variations?  (Like as in "whar'? over thar'"?)
>>>
>>> Joel
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