[Ads-l] Heard: _forehead_ > "forrid" [fOrId]

Charles C Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Mon Oct 23 14:17:24 UTC 2017


In the old nursery rhyme, it rhymes with "horrid."  The little girl in the rhyme may have been badly behaved, but she wasn't a whore-head.


--Charlie

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Subject: Re: Heard: _forehead_ > "forrid" [fOrId]

"Fahrid" is correct, if you're me.

JL

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 7:51 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

> My native pronunciation of "forehead" (in eastern Texas) was simply [fard].
>
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> --Charlie
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> "I can kick myself in the forehead."
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> spoken by Wee Man
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Acuña
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> --
> -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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