Trivial note on pronunciation: forehead

[Bill Palmer]

my grandmother, from NYC, born 1890, always pronounced it "forrid"..  She's
the only one I ever heard pronounce it that way.  She also is the only
person i ever heard call a suitcase a "valise", but I guess that's a subject
for a whole new post.

Bill Palmer
)

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From: "Dave Hause" <dwhause at JOBE.NET>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: Trivial note on pronunciation: forehead


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> Why, it must, for the rhyme to work:
> There was a little girl
> Who had a little curl
> Right in the middle of her forehead.
> And when she was good,
> She was very, very good
> And when she was bad she was horrid.
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> Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
> Waynesville, MO
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> I notice that "Ducky" (David McCallum) of NCIS properly :-) rhymes
> "forehead" with "horrid." Of course, he's even older, by four years,
> than I am.
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