no rhyme for "castle"

[Chris Waigl]

On 30 Oct 2011, at 13:54, Ronald Butters wrote:

> WELL IF SHE SAYS CASTLE WITH A "T" SHE CAN ALWAYS JUST PRONOUNCE "PASTEL" WITH FIRST-SYLLABLE STRESSED.


... or use the same pronunciation pattern for any of the following, for mostly imperfect rhymes:

apostle
bustle
hustle
jostle
kreistle
rastle
rustle
wrastle

Chris
cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -e "[aou]stle$"
plus some hand-editing


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