Trivial note on pronunciation: forehead

[Wilson Gray]

Oh, Alison! You've broken my forrid! The agony! It's like cluster pain! :-)

-Wilson

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Alison Murie<sagehen7470 at att.net> wrote:
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> On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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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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>> -Wilson
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> That would make him nearly my age.  And I agree about
> "forehead" ("There was a little girl, "&c.).
> I used to pronounce it that way, but have fallen in with the more
> common " fore head ."
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-Wilson
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