[Ads-l] rind

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Wed Apr 29 15:04:38 UTC 2015


The German pronunciation, in a German part of the country -- not so amazing?

DanG

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Lynne Rosetto Kasper, host of NPR's cooking program 'The Splendid Table,"
> pronounces "rind" (which she felt she had to define for listeners as "the
> skin of the orange")  to rhyme with "tinned."
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> Amazing.
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> JL
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