[Ads-l] Pronunciation

[Jonathan Lighter]

A fiftyish or sixtyish actor in the 1948 movie, _He Walked by Night_,
clearly says "fore-head."


JL

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Marc Sacks <msacksg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "horse" from "hoarse" and "fore" from "four."
> >
>
> Roughly, "hawrse" vs. "hoarse" and "fawre" vs. "far"
>
> --
> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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